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To Lenin for Advice. From an album of prints dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

ID:
720
Inventory number:
Гр-34 КН-2185
Type:
Graphics
Material:
paper
Techniques:
etching, engraving
Dimensions:
34x43 cm
Author:
Ivan Filonov

Ivan Nykyforovych Filonov was a Ukrainian artist, graphic artist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Born on April 10 (23), 1917 in the village of Verkhniy Amonash (now Kansky District, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia). Participated in World War II. In 1947, he graduated from the Kharkiv Art Institute. His teachers in the specialty were V. Kasiian, J. Daits, V. Mironenko. He worked in the field of easel and book graphics. He illustrated the works: "Fata Morgana" by M. Kotsiubynsky (1948), "Do the Oxen Roar When a Manger is Full" by P. Myrnyi (1954), "Zarobitchany" by K. Hordiienko (1957), "At a High Price" by M. Kotsiubynskyi (1970), made a series of etchings based on the works of T. Shevchenko (1961 to 1964), etc. Participated in art exhibitions starting in 1947. He died in 1983. Some of his works are kept in museums of Ukraine.

Preservation:
complete preservation
Location:
unknown
Provenance:
Print from an album purchased under invoice No. 8593 dated 12/22/1978. Act No. 2282 dated 09/27/1979.
Date of record to the inventory book:
16.07.1980
Item description from the inventory book:
Interior of V.I. Lenin's study. By the bookcase there is a rectangular table covered with a tablecloth. V.I. Lenin stands at the table; several men are seated. Below the image, in pencil on the right: author's signature N; on the left: "To Lenin for Advice."