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Angel

Mykola Kasperovych

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-V-7
Author: Mykola Kasperovych
Name: Angel
Date of creation: 1910s
Country: Ukraine
Culture: Eastern Europe
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions: 31.9 x 24.9 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: religious
Provenance: Yaroslava Muzyka Fund

Information about author

Author: Mykola Kasperovych
Artist's lifetime: 1885–1938
Biography: Mykola Kasperovych (1885–1938) – painter, restorer, pupil and follower of Mykhailo Boychuk. He received his primary education in Moscow and then studied at the Krakow Academy of Art (1905–1909) under the tutelage of J. Pankiewicz. Later he studied in Paris at the Studio School of M. Boychuk (1909–1910). Travelled around Italy with M. Boychuk. In 1911. He returned to Lviv, where he worked in the restoration workshops of the National Museum. From the end of 1911, he worked in Kyiv and Chernihiv as an artist-restorer. He taught at the Myrhorod Art and Ceramic College. From 1921 he was a Professor at the Ukrainian National Academy of Art. From 1927 to 1930, he headed the restoration workshop at the National Cultural and History Reserve "All-Ukrainian Museum Town" in Kyiv. Mykola Kasperovych was imprisoned and shot in 1938.

Object description

Sketch of an angel's head with a halo, turned 3/4 to the left and tilted to the bottom.

Inscriptions

In the lower left-hand corner, the inscription in pencil: "Boichuk School".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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