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Fine Art
Liberation
- ID:
- 768
- Inventory number:
- Гр-82 КН-6189
- Type:
- Graphics
- Material:
- paper
- Techniques:
- etching
- Dimensions:
- 43x67 cm
- Passport:
- 80x60 cm
- Author:
- Yurii Syrotenko
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Yurii Heorhiiovych Syrotenko was a Ukrainian graphic artist. Born on January 18, 1924 in the city of Sumy. In 1952 he graduated from the Kharkiv Art Institute. His teachers were O. Kokel, P. Kotov. He worked in the field of easel painting and graphics. Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine starting in 1961. He participated in republic exhibitions starting in 1957, all-Union exhibitions starting in 1955. Among his works there are the series "Kharkiv Tractor Plant" (1956), a series of color lithographs based on Taras Shevchenko's poem "Gaydamaky" (1961 to 1964), "From the Patriotic War" (1965), "Into a New Life" (1967), "The Proprietors" (1969 to 1971). He lived and worked in Kharkiv. He died in 2010.
- Date of creation:
- 1965
- Preservation:
- complete preservation
- Location:
- unknown
- Provenance:
- Transferred by the Directorate of Art Exhibitions of the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR. Order No. 234 of 06/15/1971. Act of receipt No. 1405 of 03/16/1972.
- Date of record to the inventory book:
- 15.01.1981
Item description from the inventory book:
In the foreground — a waist-up depiction of a girl embracing with her arms the head of a little girl pressed to her. Behind them — a broadly painted tank. At the open hatch a tankman in a helmet accepts a flowering branch from the girl. Below the image on the left — an inscription done in plain pencil: "Liberation"; on the right — Y. Syrotenko 65.
