Evening in the Steppe

ID:: 749
Inventory number:: Гр-63 КН-3090
Type:: Graphics
Material:: paper
Techniques:: coloured lithography
Dimensions:: 51.8x28.3 cm
Author:: Volodymyr Petrov; Volodymyr Ivanovych Petrov was a Ukrainian Soviet artist and a member of the Kharkiv organization of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine starting in 1958. Born on March 22, 1919 in the city of Katerynoslav (now Dnipro, Ukraine), he studied from 1937 to 1940 at the Dnipropetrovsk Art School under M. Panin. He participated in World War II. In 1945 to 1950, Petrov continued his studies at the Kharkiv Art Institute. His teachers were Ye. Svitlychnyi, M. Derehus, S. Besiedin, H. Bondarenko, and P. Kotov. Petrov worked in the field of easel painting and graphics. He participated in republic and all-Union exhibitions starting in 1957, and foreign exhibitions starting in 1963. Among his works are "Moonlit Night" (1957), "Girls' Talks" (1960), "Brothers" (1964), "Earth and People" (1967, etching, aquatint), "Fields of Ukraine" (1968, lithography), "Native Meadows" (1969, lithography), and others. The artist's works are kept in some art and local history museums of Ukraine. He died on July 28, 1974 in Kharkiv.
Date of creation:: 1964
Preservation:: complete preservation
Location:: unknown
Provenance:: Transferred by the Directorate of Art Exhibitions of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR. Act No. 1405 dated 03/16/1972.
Date of record to the inventory book:: 15.10.1980

Item description from the inventory book:

Most of the image is occupied by a steppe field. In the center of the field there is a dark plowed strip. On the left - a telegraph pole. On the horizon there are dark silhouettes of tractors and a small human figure. On the right in the evening sky there is a large disk of the sun. At the lower right - the artist’s signature and the date: 1964.

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