Sheet "Archip Kuindzhi. After the storm 1879"

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