LOT 67
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Lot 67
IVAN NIKOLAEVICH SHULGA (Russian 1889-1956)
Women Drawing Water for Red Army Soldiers-1931
Oil on canvas
Signed in Cyrillic lower right and dated ‘31
7.5 inches x 11.25 inches (19 x 28.5 cm)
Estimate:
$600 - 900
Ivan Shulga was a multitalented artist being a teacher, draftsman, illustrator and scene painter. He was born in a village in the Mikhailovka Kherson region of the Ukraine. He studied in St. Petersburg at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1911-1917) with I.I. Tvorozhnikov (1848-1919) and V.E. Savinski (1859-1937). From 1926 he was a member of the Association of Artists of Ukraine (AHKU). Besides painting thematic, historical, landscape and still life paintings, Shulga also worked in newspaper and magazine publishing as a graphic artist and also did book illustrations as well as producing works for wall calendars, political posters and postcards. He exhibited at Twenty Years of the Workers, and Peasants and Red Army, Moscow, 1938. As well as the following year at Industry of Socialism also in Moscow. He is included in the ranks of the 100 most important Ukrainian artists.
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