View of the Kosmachi Village

ID:: 756
Inventory number:: Гр-70 КН-4947
Type:: Graphics
Material:: paper
Techniques:: mixed media colouring
Dimensions:: 43x27.5 cm
Author:: Petro Chobitko; Petro Petrovych Chobitko is a painter, graphic artist, teacher, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Born on May 15, 1946 in Kyiv. In 1965 he graduated from the T.H. Shevchenko republic Art School (Kyiv) and entered the Kyiv Art Institute. In Soviet times he worked in the field of posters, industrial graphics, and bookplates. He is also the author of numerous landscapes of Ukraine. He participated in art exhibitions starting in 1966. In 2000 he moved to St. Petersburg, worked as a teacher at the School of Folk Arts. Starting in 2007 he has taught at the Department of Graphics at the Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.Yu. Repin (St. Petersburg). Some of his works are kept in museums in Ukraine and Russia.
Date of creation:: 1969
Preservation:: complete preservation
Location:: unknown
Provenance:: Transferred by the Exhibition Directorate of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR. Act No. 1718 dated 01/27/1975.
Date of record to the inventory book:: 31.12.1980

Item description from the inventory book:

In the foreground — a house with an open door, a household plot behind a picket fence, cut off by the lower edge of the sheet. To the left under a canopy — a haystack with a ladder leaning against it. In the middle ground — houses, trees, fields. Under the image in pencil there is the inscription: P. Chobitko 1969, mixed technique "Landscape in Kosmachi".