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Blast Furnace of the Azovstal Plant

ID:
742
Inventory number:
Гр-56 КН-3078
Type:
Graphics
Material:
paper
Techniques:
watercolor
Dimensions:
57.5x45.5 cm
Author:
Heorhii Verbytskyi

Heorhii Mykolaiovych Verbytskyi is a Ukrainian painter and graphic artist. Born on October 27, 1920 in the village of Shyryayevo, Odesa region, he graduated from the Kyiv Engineering and Construction Institute (1938-1939), where he studied under O. Verbytskyi. He worked in the field of watercolor painting. Verbytskyi was a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1970) and Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1989). He participated in exhibitions: republic (1957), all-Union (1965), and foreign. His main works include the watercolors "Kamenets-Podilskyi" (1960), "Shevchenko Village" (1960), "Shevchenko Museum" (1960), "Kyiv University" (1962), "Cossack Graves" (1963), and "In the Artist's Workshop" (1981), the series "Shevchenko Places" (1960-1964), "Flowers" (1994), "Industrial Zhdaniv" (1967), "Landscapes" (2003), the triptych "Ukrainian Motifs" (1980), "Kyiv. Lavra" (1986), "Wedding" (1990), "Blue Parrot" (1999), and others. His works are kept in museums of Ukraine. Verbytskyi lived and worked in Kyiv and died in 2011.

Date of creation:
1967
Preservation:
complete preservation
Location:
unknown
Provenance:
Transferred by the Directorate of Art Exhibitions of the Ukrainian SSR. Order No. 234 of 06/15/1971 of the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR. Act No. 1405 of 03/16/1972.
Date of record to the inventory book:
15.10.1980
Item description from the inventory book:
The blast-furnace structure. On a dark brown background red patches of glowing fiery mass stand out. At the bottom in front of the furnace on the right — a small house; on the left — a narrow-gauge track with a steam locomotive in motion.