1888
oil
canvas
From the collection of Tretyakov Gallery
Dominant colour
Ukrainian Night is a 1888 oil by Arkhip Kuindzhi, a Impressionism work, held at Tretyakov Gallery.
Ukrainian Night is an oil on canvas painting by Russian artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, from 1876. The painting is part of the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, in Moscow (inv. 879).
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The painting Ukrainian Night was first shown in 1876 at the 5th exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki) and was a great success there. It was also exhibited in the Russian Art Department at the 1878 Paris Exposition. In 1878 for this painting, along with the paintings On the Island of Valaam (1873, Tretyakov Gallery), Chumatsky tract in Mariupol (1875, Tretyakov Gallery) and Steppe (1875, Yaroslavl Art Museum), Kuindzhi was awarded the title of class artist of the 1st degree. This painting is considered a turning point in the artist's work. Starting with it,…
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Writer Mikhail Nevedomsky, author of a biography of Kuindzhi, wrote: But the real triumph of Kuindzhi was his painting of 1876 - Ukrainian Night, which decorated, in the true sense of the word, the fifth traveling exhibition. It can be said that it was in this piece that Kuindzhi first found himself, became on his true path, revealed all the richness of his artistic individuality. It is with Ukrainian Night that we should mark the beginning of a mature period in the work of Kuindzhi.... And art historian Vladimir Petrov wrote so in his article dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth…
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (27 January 1841 – 24 July 1910) was a Russian landscape painter of Urum (Crimean Greek) origin.
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