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Print. From an album of prints dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

ID:
729
Inventory number:
Гр-43 КН-2194
Type:
Graphics
Dimensions:
47x35 cm
Author:
Mykola Popov

Mykola Tarasovych Popov was a Ukrainian graphic artist, teacher, and member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine from 1961. Born on August 7, 1927 in the village of Yastrebovtsi (now Kursk Oblast, Russia), he studied from 1950 to 1956 at the Kyiv Art Institute, where his teachers were O. Pashchenko, K. Zaruba, and O. Filbert. Starting in 1961, he taught there at the Department of Graphic Arts, and from 1978, he was a professor. Popov worked mainly in the field of easel graphics (lithography, etching, various drawing tools) and painting. He was an Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR from 1977 and a People's Artist of Ukraine from 1997. Among his works are the graphic series "Based on "Kobzar" by T.G. Shevchenko" (1964), "Factory and People" (1966), "My Childhood" (1970 to 1972), "Human World" (1971 to 1977), "Partisan Suite" (1974), "My Kyiv" (1976 to 1980), "Courage" (1981 to 1982), and others. He participated in art exhibitions. Popov died on June 12, 2010 in Kyiv. His works are kept in art and local history museums of Ukraine.

Preservation:
complete preservation
Location:
unknown
Provenance:
Purchased under invoice No. 8593 dated 12/22/1978. Act No. 2282 dated 09/27/1979.
Date of record to the inventory book:
17.07.1980
Item description from the inventory book:
In the foreground — a village street, a tractor with a trailer driving along it, bicycles, a truck whose cargo bed holds collective-farm women in white headscarves. In the center — houses, trees; behind them — a small pond with a pier and boats. In the background — houses of collective farmers and kolkhoz buildings.