Sheet "Archip Kuindzhi. After the storm 1879"

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Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842-1910) is a Ukrainian landscape painter and teacher of Greek origin, born in Mariupol in the family of a shoemaker.

A. Kuindzhi created unique landscapes, was an active participant in many exhibitions, including European ones (London, Paris). His works were always successful. The most famous: "Night in Ukraine", "Birch Grove", "Moonlit Night on the Dnieper".

Arkhip Kuindzhi's landscape "After the Thunderstorm" (1879, cardboard, oil, 10x16 cm) is a variant of the work of the same name stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery) and was exhibited in 1879 as part of a kind of "trilogy" (together with "North" and "Birch grove"). This real pearl of the landscape genre was reproduced on a postage stamp, which once again demonstrated the originality, unique inimitability of the painter's talent.

The work is kept in the Sumy Art Museum, which bears the name of its founder - N. H. Onatskyi. The museum has several more works by the unique master Kuindzhi and works by many other famous domestic and foreign artists of the 17th - beginning of the 17th century. 21st century

Printing 140 000 stamps

Theme Art

Author Baribi V.

Nominal value 4.40 UAH

Ukrposhta catalogue number 1552

The number of stamps in the sheet/block 8

Issue date 27.01.2017

Product Type Commemorative Stamp

Isuue year 2017