All Artworks
The full collection — 423 works by 113 Ukrainian artists, from Baroque icons to the modernist avant-garde.
Mandylion (Saviour Not-Made-by-Hands)
Ivan Rutkovych
Archangel Michael (Skvariava Nova iconostasis)
Ivan Rutkovych
An icon of the Archangel Michael in Rutkovych's rich Baroque manner.
Christ Pantocrator (Skvariava Nova iconostasis)
Ivan Rutkovych
The central icon of Rutkovych's Skvariava Nova iconostasis, a masterpiece of Ukrainian Baroque.
Archangel Gabriel (Skvariava Nova iconostasis)
Ivan Rutkovych
Bohorodchany (Maniava) Iconostasis
Yov Kondzelevych
Christ the Teacher
Yov Kondzelevych
The icon of Christ the Teacher from the Bohorodchany Iconostasis, notable for its refined modelling.
Dormition of the Mother of God
Yov Kondzelevych
An icon from the Bohorodchany Iconostasis depicting the Dormition of the Virgin with the apostles.
Volodymyr and Rohnida
Anton Losenko
Losenko's program piece, one of the first history paintings drawn from the Kyivan Rus past.
Portrait of Kateryna Nelidova
Dmytro Levytskyi
From the celebrated Smolny Institute series, depicting a pupil in a theatrical dancing pose.
Self-Portrait
Dmytro Levytskyi
An intimate small-format self-portrait of the artist at the height of his fame.
Portrait of Maria Lopukhina
Volodymyr Borovykovskyi
His most famous portrait, an icon of Sentimentalism, of a young noblewoman against a soft pastoral landscape.
Self-portrait
Taras Shevchenko
The Gypsy Fortune Teller
Taras Shevchenko
Kateryna
Taras Shevchenko
Peasant Family
Taras Shevchenko
A warm group portrait of a Ukrainian peasant family by their cottage, among Shevchenko's finest genre oils.
Kazakh on Horseback
Taras Shevchenko
A watercolour from Shevchenko's Aral Sea expedition during his years of exile.
Fire in the Steppe
Taras Shevchenko
A dramatic watercolour of a steppe fire from the 1848 Aral Sea expedition.
The Ninth Wave
Ivan Aivazovskyi
Carolers in Ukraine
Kostiantyn Trutovskyi
Return from the Fair in Rural Ukraine
Kostiantyn Trutovskyi
A cart of villagers coming home from a country fair, the standard occasion of Ukrainian genre painting handled without either satire or idyll. The picture became one of Trutovskyi's most reproduced compositions through the illustrated press.
Shevchenko in Exile
Kornylo Ustyianovych
A portrait of Taras Shevchenko during his forced exile, one of the artist's most reproduced works.
Portrait of the Historian Mykola Kostomarov
Mykola Ge
Ge's portrait of Mykola Kostomarov, the Ukrainian historian and Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood member who had taught him at the First Kyiv Gymnasium. Critics have long counted it, with the Saltykov-Shchedrin portrait, among his most intellectually charged likenesses.
The Rainbow
Ivan Aivazovskyi
Shipwrecked sailors battle stormy waves as a faint rainbow appears through the spray.
Bleaching Linen
Kostiantyn Trutovskyi
A pastoral Ukrainian genre scene of peasant women bleaching woven linen.
Shevchenko with a Kobza over the Dnieper
Kostiantyn Trutovskyi
A romantic depiction of Taras Shevchenko as a kobzar seated above the Dnipro river.
Ukrainian Night
Arkhyp Kuindzhi
A moonlit Ukrainian village where whitewashed huts glow against the deep blue darkness.
A Birch Grove
Arkhyp Kuindzhi
A sunlit clearing where bright birch trunks and sharp contrasts create an impression of intense daylight.
Summer in Ukraine (Summer in Little Russia)
Petro Levchenko
Requested priority title «Літо в Україні», via its historical variant «Лето в Малороссии».
Moonlit Night on the Dnipro
Arkhyp Kuindzhi
Wedding Ransom
Kostiantyn Trutovskyi
A lively Ukrainian village genre scene depicting the traditional wedding ransom ceremony.
In the Studio
Mariia Bashkirtseva
Bashkirtseva's best-known canvas records the women's atelier of the Académie Julian in Paris, with students crowded around a boy model in a room hung with drawings. It is both a group portrait of her fellow women artists and a quiet argument that they belonged in professional training, and it now hangs in Ukraine at the Dnipro Art Museum.
The Black Sea
Ivan Aivazovskyi
A vast, brooding seascape of the swelling Black Sea under a gathering storm.
At a Book
Mariia Bashkirtseva
A close-focused study of a young woman absorbed in reading, painted in the soft grey-green tonality Bashkirtseva took from Bastien-Lepage. It is one of the few of her canvases preserved in Ukraine, in the collection of the Kharkiv Art Museum.
Mazepa Crossing the Dnipro
Kornylo Ustyianovych
A dramatic historical scene of the Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa crossing the Dnieper.
Spring Day in Ukraine
Serhii Vasylkivskyi
A sunlit rural scene capturing a bright spring day in the Ukrainian village.
Spring
Mariia Bashkirtseva
A large decorative panel, begun from studies made in an old orchard, showing a young woman leaning back against a tree with her eyes closed and a faint smile, wrapped in blossoming apple and peach branches. Bashkirtseva described the idea in her diary as a figure dissolved into a tender green landscape, and painted it in the same muted browns and greens Bastien-Lepage used for his plein-air peasants.
A Meeting
Mariia Bashkirtseva
Seven ragged Parisian boys stand conspiring in front of a wooden fence while a girl walks away in the background. Shown at the 1884 Salon and bought for the French state, it is the fullest statement of Bashkirtseva's naturalist interest in the children of the city's poor outskirts.
Storm Clouds
Volodymyr Orlovskyi
Seascape
Volodymyr Orlovskyi
Kobzar (illustration to 'Haidamaky')
Opanas Slastion
Portrait of Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachnyi
Teofil Kopystynskyi
A historical portrait of the 17th-century Cossack hetman in a crimson zhupan holding a mace.
At the Well
Yosyp Krachkovskyi
A village well with figures, painted in Krachkovskyi's academic-realist manner two years after he was made an academician. Wikimedia Commons files it under paintings of Ukraine by the artist.
Haymaking
Mykola Serheiev
Mowers at work in a summer meadow, painted the year Serheiev was elected an honorary free associate of the Imperial Academy. The picture places its figures small inside a broad, hazy field rather than making them the subject.
Easter in Ukraine
Kostiantyn Trutovskyi
A village Easter in the second half of the nineteenth century: the congregation has come out of church and eaten, and now sits talking while the young crack dyed eggs against each other in the game of nabytky. The dating varies between sources, with 1883 and 1887 both in circulation, and the related Easter Matins in Ukraine is a separate, later canvas.
Before the Thunderstorm. At the End of Summer
Yosyp Krachkovskyi
A large late-summer landscape of 1888 with a storm building over open country, and one of Krachkovskyi's most ambitious canvases by scale. Held by the Odesa Art Museum.
Fishing on the Dnipro
Mykola Serheiev
Fishermen working a seine net on the Dnipro, one of Serheiev's few compositions built around labour rather than pure landscape. The wide river and low bank are treated with the same soft, even light as his garden pictures.
Yuletide Fortune-Telling
Mykola Pymonenko
A young Ukrainian woman performing traditional Christmastide fortune-telling rituals.
Cossack Picket
Serhii Vasylkivskyi
A mounted Zaporozhian Cossack on sentry duty in the open Ukrainian steppe.
Twilight on the River
Yosyp Krachkovskyi
An 1889 river scene at dusk, from the same years as Krachkovskyi's Ukrainian harvest and evening subjects.
The coast near Sudak
Volodymyr Orlovskyi
The Garden
Mykola Serheiev
An overgrown village garden painted in the year Serheiev received both the Order of St Stanislaus and an honourable mention in Paris. It is one of the clearest statements of his preferred subject: an enclosed, sun-filled garden with no anecdote in it.
Ukrainian Evening
Yosyp Krachkovskyi
Krachkovskyi's best-known Ukrainian subject and one of his most widely reproduced pictures, showing a village at dusk under a warm, dying light. It belongs to the late-nineteenth-century vogue for the 'Ukrainian evening' motif popularised by Kuindzhi.
Winter Afternoon in Chernihiv
Opanas Slastion
A winter genre landscape capturing a quiet afternoon scene in the city of Chernihiv.
What Is Truth? Christ and Pilate
Mykola Ge
Painted over his earlier canvas Mercy, this is Ge's most notorious late work: a shadowed, exhausted Christ confronted by a Pilate standing in full light. Its refusal of any idealised Saviour outraged church and academy alike and the picture was withdrawn from exhibition.
Dawn. Khutir Ivanivskyi
Mykola Ge
High-resolution, unwatermarked alternative from the same Khutir Ivanivskyi landscape series, in case the watermarked 500 px 'Moonlit Night' is unusable.
A Holiday Table
Petro Levchenko
One of the quiet interiors that form the second strand of Levchenko's output, showing a laid table in a domestic room. The picture treats an empty, waiting interior with the same atmospheric attention he gave to open landscape.
At Dawn
Petro Levchenko
Requested priority title («На зорі» / 'At Dawn').
The Melon Field (Bakhcha)
Yosyp Krachkovskyi
A southern melon and watermelon plantation under a high summer sun, one of the two works most often cited as Krachkovskyi's Ukrainian subjects. The picture is dated by Wikimedia Commons only to the 1890s or 1900s.
A View of the Kharkiv Region, by the River
Petro Levchenko
A wide, low-horizon view of the Slobozhanshchyna countryside above a river, the subject Levchenko returned to more than any other. The landscape is built from muted greens and greys that register the humidity of the air rather than local colour.
Chumak Romodan Road
Serhii Vasylkivskyi
The historic Chumak salt-traders' road winding across the wide Ukrainian steppe.
Wedding in the Kyiv Province
Mykola Pymonenko
A festive traditional Ukrainian village wedding procession in the Kyiv region.
Hutsul
Kornylo Ustyianovych
A portrait of a Hutsul man in traditional Carpathian dress.
At the Dacha. Noon
Kyriak Kostandi
A sun-drenched midday garden scene at a country house, blending genre and landscape.
To the Altar
Ivan Yizhakevych
A genre scene depicting a Ukrainian wedding tradition (published before 1917; PD).
Portrait of Nataliia Petrunkevych
Mykola Ge
One of Ge's last works, painted at Ivanivskyi: the daughter of his Chernihiv neighbours stands reading by an open window with the twilight garden behind her. The full-length format and the dissolving green half-light make it the most lyrical portrait of his Ukrainian years.
Cossack Meadow
Serhii Vasylkivskyi
Autumn
Petro Nilus
An early atmospheric landscape exemplifying Nilus's lyrical, muted Impressionist treatment of the Ukrainian autumn.
The Dnipro
Mykola Murashko
A panoramic view of the Dnieper river.
Apple Trees in Blossom. In Ukraine
Mykola Serheiev
A Ukrainian orchard in full flower, catalogued in the nineteenth century under the imperial term 'Little Russia'. The blossom is handled as a dense screen of broken white and pink, the closest Serheiev came to impressionist paint.
A Blossoming Garden with Poppies
Mykhailo Berkos
An impressionist garden scene with blooming poppies, in Berkos's bright palette.
Harvest in Ukraine
Mykola Pymonenko
Ukrainian peasant women and children gathering the harvest in golden summer fields.
Ukrainian Landscape
Mykola Murashko
A realist Ukrainian rural landscape.
Portrait of Ivan Franko
Ivan Trush
A finely rendered portrait of the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko.
A Peasant Girl by the Wattle Fence
Fotii Krasytskyi
An ethnographically attentive genre portrait of a young Ukrainian peasant girl by a village fence.
Autumn. In the evening
Serhii Svitoslavskyi
Among the Waves
Ivan Aivazovskyi
Painted at over eighty, it depicts the open sea merged with a stormy sky in foaming waves.
A Victim of Fanaticism
Mykola Pymonenko
Street in a Ukrainian Village
Mykola Serheiev
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Sunset over the Lake
Serhii Vasylkivskyi
A glowing sunset reflected across the still water of a Ukrainian lake.
Masandra
Yosyp Krachkovskyi
One of the Crimean landscapes Krachkovskyi painted around the imperial estates at Masandra and Livadia, subjects that made his reputation at court. A related view of the Masandra Palace is held by the Kroshytskyi Sevastopol Art Museum.
Khutir (Homestead)
Petro Levchenko
Bohdan Khmelnytskyi
Mykola Ivasiuk
A heroic portrait study of the Cossack hetman and leader of the 1648 uprising.
Girls. Palm Sunday
Serafyma Blonska
Blonska's Academy diploma painting shows a group of girls at a Palm Sunday night service, holding pussy-willow branches and burning candles, with the blue night sky visible through the open church doors. She built the composition so that the girls' faces answer the faces of the saints in the wall paintings behind them, and kept the whole canvas in pale, clear tones; she gave the picture to the city of Taganrog in 1942.
Zaporozhian Cossack Ships
Opanas Slastion
A historical drawing of Zaporozhian Cossack chaika boats alongside a captured Ottoman galley.
Lawn
Serhii Svitoslavskyi
White Cottage. Putyvl
Petro Levchenko
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Street in Paris
Petro Levchenko
A rare urban subject painted after Levchenko's 1895 journey to Paris, where he encountered the French Impressionists. The dissolved architecture and flickering light show how directly that encounter fed back into his Ukrainian landscapes.
The Hollow Tree
Ivan Miasoiedov
An early plein-air study from the artist's Poltava years, built around a single split, hollowed trunk in open countryside. It belongs to the group of works that passed into the Poltava Art Museum directly from Miasoiedov's own estate, and shows him working from nature well before the mythological canvases of the following decade.
Windmill. The Nightfall
Petro Levchenko
A rural Ukrainian windmill silhouetted against the fading light of evening.
Ford
Mykola Pymonenko
Ukrainian peasant women and cattle crossing a river ford on a sunlit summer day.
Portrait of Kobzar Mykhailo Kravchenko
Opanas Slastion
A detailed graphic portrait of the renowned blind kobzar Mykhailo Kravchenko.
The Orange Seller
Modest Sosenko
Stone Stream
Petro Levchenko
A small intimate landscape of a rocky stream winding through the countryside.
Blooming Lilac
Kyriak Kostandi
An impressionist garden study of lilac bushes in full bloom, painted with luminous colour.
Girl in a Red Hat
Oleksandr Murashko
On the Khutir. Mala Danylivka
Mykhailo Berkos
A quiet study of a Ukrainian farmstead near Kharkiv, capturing rural light and atmosphere.
Poppies
Serafyma Blonska
A field of poppies painted directly from nature, with the flowers set down in loaded red touches against loose green. Together with Geese it shows the lighter, sketch-like side of Blonska's practice after her academic training.
Geese
Serafyma Blonska
A small plein-air study of a flock of geese in bright daylight, painted three years after her diploma work in a much freer, more broken touch. It belongs to the group of Blonska's canvases preserved in the Taganrog Art Museum.
Lirnyk
Modest Sosenko
Evening Sun
Ivan Trush
A landscape capturing the warm glow of the setting sun and Trush's love of atmospheric light.
Backwoods
Petro Levchenko
A secluded, overgrown corner of nature in Levchenko's quiet lyrical style.
Alley in the Garden
Mykola Serheiev
A tiny square panel of a shaded garden path, painted late in Serheiev's career. Its scale and directness make it effectively a plein-air study raised to the status of a finished picture.
The Little Bee
Olena Kulchytska
Carousel
Oleksandr Murashko
The murals of the church in the village of Pidberiztsi
Modest Sosenko
The Voyage of the Minyans
Ivan Miasoiedov
A monumental frieze-like composition of the Minyan heroes — the Argonauts — setting out for Colchis, rowing a long ship past a crowded shore. Painted for the Academy of Arts, it is the clearest example of Miasoiedov's turn from his father's social realism to antique myth handled in the manner of Central European symbolism.
Annunciation
Oleksandr Murashko
A rare religious subject for Murashko, bathed in a deep golden light.
Red Sunset on the Dnipro
Arkhyp Kuindzhi
A glowing crimson sunset floods the Dnieper river and sky in one of Kuindzhi's late luminous landscapes.
Idyll
Mykola Pymonenko
A young Ukrainian couple in traditional dress in a tender rural courtship scene.
Watermill
Petro Levchenko
A late work showing a wooden watermill sunk into the damp greenery of a Kharkiv-region riverbank. The mill was one of Levchenko's recurring motifs, painted here in the loosened, light-filled manner of his final decade.
The Bride
Fedir Krychevskyi
A monumental depiction of a Ukrainian bride combining academic skill with national folk themes.
Winter
Hryhorii Svitlytskyi
A small early-period winter landscape, consistent with his lyrical landscape work.
Church Dome (Church in Hurzuf)
Ivan Miasoiedov
A steeply upward-looking view of a church dome painted during one of Miasoiedov's Crimean campaigns in Hurzuf, handled in broad, light-saturated brushwork. It belongs to the Crimean series that also includes Alupka and Tatar Cemetery in the Crimea.
Spring Night
Hryhorii Svitlytskyi
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Ukrainian Madonna
Oleksa Novakivskyi
Ukrainian Family
Osyp Kurylas
A genre painting of a family in traditional Ukrainian dress.
Sunday
Oleksandr Murashko
A quietly melancholic genre scene of peasant women on a Sunday, suffused with subdued light.
Portrait of the Dying Father. Agony
Ivan Miasoiedov
Miasoiedov painted his father Grigoriy Myasoyedov from life as he lay dying at Pavlenky in 1911, an unflinching deathbed portrait with none of the consolation of nineteenth-century funerary painting. The picture marks the end of his father's Poltava household and the beginning of Miasoiedov's own decade there.
Beatrice
Fedir Krychevskyi
An idealized female figure inspired by Dante's Beatrice, from Krychevsky's early symbolist period.
Morning in the Village after Snowstorm
Kazymyr Malevych
A Cubo-Futurist scene of peasants and houses after a snowstorm in cylindrical, metallic forms.
Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's Entry into Kyiv
Mykola Ivasiuk
Ivasyuk's most famous work: the victorious hetman riding a white horse into Kyiv in 1648.
Musicians
Hryhorii Svitlytskyi
A group of hired village musicians, painted by an artist who was himself a professional violinist and composer. With To the City and On Earnings it belongs to the socially attentive strand of his pre-revolutionary work.
By the sea
Olena Kulchytska
Portrait of a Sister in White
Olena Kulchytska
Street on Podil
Oleksandr Bohomazov
An early Cubo-Futurist Kyiv cityscape of the historic Podil district with tilted facades.
Askold's Grave
Ivan Yizhakevych
A view of Askold's Grave, a historic landmark in Kyiv (published before 1917; PD).
Kyiv Town Museum
Mykola Burachek
A cityscape of the Kyiv City Museum building in Burachek's impressionist style.
Carnival
Vsevolod Maksymovych
A dense, ornamental composition teeming with masked figures in a swirling decorative rhythm.
The Kiss
Vsevolod Maksymovych
An ornate, intricately patterned canvas blending Art Nouveau decorativeness with symbolist eroticism.
Geese
Kyriak Kostandi
Self-Portrait
Vsevolod Maksymovych
The Knife Grinder (Principle of Glittering)
Kazymyr Malevych
A Cubo-Futurist painting of a knife grinder in fragmented, repeated geometric planes to convey motion.
Tram (Lviv Street, Kyiv)
Oleksandr Bohomazov
A Peasant Family
Oleksandr Murashko
A monumental group portrait of a Ukrainian peasant family in bold colour.
Florence
Oleksandra Ekster
A vivid Cubo-Futurist cityscape rendering Florence as a kaleidoscope of intersecting colour planes.
The Argonauts
Vsevolod Maksymovych
A mythological scene in Maksymovych's dense, micro-patterned manner, from his final year.
Washerwoman
Oleksandr Murashko
An Englishman in Moscow
Kazymyr Malevych
An alogist composition juxtaposing disconnected objects, marking Malevich's move toward the abstract.
Bulka (Bread Roll)
Vasyl Yermylov
Black Square
Kazymyr Malevych
In Thought (Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
Oleksa Novakivskyi
A contemplative portrait of the painter's wife, Anna Novakivska.
Jackdaws. Autumn
Kyriak Kostandi
An autumn landscape with jackdaws, evoking a quiet seasonal mood in muted tones.
Venice
Oleksandra Ekster
A Cubo-Futurist depiction of Venice in fragmented, dynamic planes of colour.
Moonlit Night
Hryhorii Svitlytskyi
Captioned on the source page as «Лунная ночь.
A Guest from Zaporizhia
Fotii Krasytskyi
A Zaporozhian Cossack visitor in a Ukrainian village interior, one of Krasytsky's best-known works.
Urban Landscape (City)
Oleksandra Ekster
Still Life
Oleksa Novakivskyi
A vivid still life of fruit and flowers from the artist's Lviv period.
Ukrainian Alphabet (Abetka) — Letter A
Heorhii Narbut
A sheet from Narbut's Ukrainian Alphabet depicting the letter А with folk and Baroque motifs.
Non-Objective Composition
Oleksandra Ekster
100 Karbovantsiv Banknote of the UNR
Heorhii Narbut
Narbut's design for the 100 karbovantsiv note, the first banknote of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
Project for the Coat of Arms of the Ukrainian State
Heorhii Narbut
Narbut's heraldic project for the state coat of arms, built around the Volodymyr trident.
Great State Emblem of the UNR
Vasyl Krychevskyi
White on White
Kazymyr Malevych
Banknote of the UNR (40 shah)
Heorhii Narbut
Portrait of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky
Oleksa Novakivskyi
A monumental portrait of the Greek Catholic Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, the artist's Lviv patron.
Apple Tree in Bloom
Mykhailo Berkos
One of Berkos's last works, a flowering apple tree in spontaneous, light-filled brushwork.
Cottage on a Moonlit Night
Hryhorii Svitlytskyi
Second substitute for the 'Moonlit Night' theme, dated 1919 (closest to the requested 1920).
Glasses of Water
Adalbert Erdeli
One of Erdeli's signature still lifes, tackling the notoriously difficult subject of water in clear glass. Ukrainian Wikipedia uses it as a key illustration of his early work.
Construction
Oleksandra Ekster
A non-objective composition of overlapping geometric planes from Ekster's Constructivist turn.
The Milkmaid
Mykhailo Boichuk
Self-Portrait in a White Sheepskin Coat
Fedir Krychevskyi
Portrait of the Artist's Father
Adalbert Erdeli
A portrait of Mykhailo Hryts, the artist's Ukrainian father — the man who Magyarised the family name — painted in 1926, the year Erdeli settled in Uzhhorod.
In the Liknep School
Vasyl Sedliar
Life (triptych)
Fedir Krychevskyi
Execution at Mezhyhiria
Vasyl Sedliar
A partly destroyed monumental painting; one of the few surviving works of Sedliar, executed in 1937.
Sharpening the Saws
Oleksandr Bohomazov
A Cottage at Noon
Mykola Burachek
Theseus
Olena Kulchytska
Before the Thunderstorm
Mykola Burachek
An impressionistic landscape capturing the charged sky moments before a thunderstorm.
Sawyers
Oleksandr Bohomazov
A late Spectralist composition from Bohomazov's Sawing cycle, depicting labourers in rhythmic planes.
Cover for 'Avant-Garde'
Vasyl Yermylov
Yermylov's Constructivist cover design for the Kyiv avant-garde journal Avant-Garde.
Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's Entry into Kyiv
Mykola Samokysh
A grand scene of hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky entering Kyiv in triumph in 1648.
Hutsul
Ivan Trush
A study of a Hutsul highlander from the Carpathian Mountains.
The Harbour
Anatol Petrytskyi
Summer. Haystacks
Ivan Trush
A sunlit landscape of haystacks standing in a summer field, in Trush's impressionist style.
The Battle Between Bohun and Charnetskyi Near Monastyryshche
Mykola Samokysh
A swirling cavalry battle of Cossack colonel Ivan Bohun fighting Czarnecki in 1653.
Illustration for Shevchenko's 'Kobzar'
Vasyl Sedliar
An illustration for the landmark 1931 'Kobzar' in the monumental Boychukist style.
Dovbush
Fedir Krychevskyi
A heroic portrayal of the Carpathian folk hero Oleksa Dovbush.
Cover of the Literary-Artistic Magazine
Vasyl Yermylov
A Constructivist magazine cover with a geometric typographic composition.
Winter Landscape
Mykola Burachek
A snowy scene of Burachek's impressionist treatment of light across a wintry Ukrainian landscape.
Collective Farm in Bloom
Hryhorii Svitlytskyi
Svitlytskyi's best-known Soviet-period landscape, a flowering orchard turned into an image of collectivised abundance only three years after the Holodomor. It shows how his lyrical light painting was recruited to the required optimism of the 1930s.
Flowers Behind the Fence
Kateryna Bilokur
One of Bilokur's earliest surviving flower compositions, a wall of roses, phlox, lilies and tulips pressing forward out of a dark garden so densely that no single light source can be found in it. Ukrposhta reproduced it in full bleed on a 2015 stamp.
Flowers in the Mist
Kateryna Bilokur
Painted in the year Bilokur was first exhibited, a pale, softly dissolved flower thicket in which the blooms surface out of a silvered haze instead of standing against her usual flat blue ground. It appeared on a Ukrposhta stamp strip issued in 1998.
Blue Bull
Mariia Prymachenko
An early post-war beast painting in which a deep blue bull stands against an ornamented ground, one of the works that established Prymachenko's mature idiom. Ukrposhta reproduced it on a 2020 stamp sheet marking the Year of the Ox.
Silentium
Olena Kulchytska
Winter
Fedir Konovaliuk
A postcard-sized winter panel, an extreme example of the miniature scale on which Konovaliuk often worked, made in the same immediate post-war years as his blossoming orchards.
Spring
Serhii Shyshko
A blossoming orchard above a river bank, with a woman in a straw hat and two children in blue and red walking a sandy path under white-flowered branches. Signed and dated lower left 'С. Шишко 48', it is an early, wholly plein-air work in which Shyshko's Impressionist handling of broken colour is already fully formed.
Blossoming Ukrainian Garden
Fedir Konovaliuk
A small post-war panel of an orchard in full blossom, the kind of specific, dated Ukrainian village view Konovaliuk built his reputation on. Signed lower right and catalogued by Goldens as lot 4 of its Ukrainian collectible art exhibition.
Tsar Kolos
Kateryna Bilokur
Bilokur's best-known painting: ripe golden ears of wheat reigning at the centre of a deep brown ground, ringed by flowers and fruit. It was one of three works sent to the Soviet section of the 1954 international exhibition in Paris, where Picasso is reported to have praised her.
Bread
Tetiana Yablonska
Yablonska's four-metre-wide threshing-floor scene, built from sketches made in the village of Letava in 1948 where 717 of 765 able-bodied villagers were women. It won a Stalin Prize in 1949 and a bronze medal at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, and hangs in the Tretyakov Gallery as a canonical work of Socialist Realism.
Hutsul
Volodymyr Sydoruk
Fresh Morning. Kyiv
Serhii Shyshko
A large early-morning Kyiv landscape from the years in which Shyshko was beginning the Kyivan Suite, built on the cool, damp light he preferred for the city's river slopes.
Morning
Tetiana Yablonska
A thirteen-year-old girl — the artist's elder daughter Olena — doing morning exercises in the family's Kyiv flat, painted in the first light of the Khrushchev Thaw. Reproduced in 'Ogoniok', on postcards and in school readers, it became one of the most widely seen Soviet-era paintings, though Yablonska herself was never satisfied with it.
Roofs of Uzhhorod
Havrylo Hliuk
Old Town
Liuboslav Hutsaliuk
A dense old-European townscape of gabled roofs, arcades and pointed spires reduced to a lattice of olive, ochre and coral impasto against a flat yellow sky. Signed and dated lower right 'Hutsaliuk 1959', it is a fully characteristic example of the 'gothicised' city pictures that made his reputation in Paris.
Bouquet of Flowers
Kateryna Bilokur
A late massed bouquet of roses, peonies and phlox in the hot pink-and-crimson register of Bilokur's final years, painted two years before her death. It is the second of the two Bilokur paintings reproduced on Ukrposhta's 1998 stamp strip.
Hipster
Olena Kulchytska
Park in Winter
Serhii Shyshko
A snow-covered Kyiv park with bare, sprawling trees, a frozen fountain and small figures with sledges, worked up in cool blues, greys and lilacs against warm white snow.
Lingerie
Petro Sulymenko
Red Poppies
Veniamin Kushnir
One of the two 1961 canvases, alongside 'Trembita', that established Kushnir's reputation among the Sixtiers, its blazing red poppies read at the time as an unmistakable statement of Ukrainian national feeling.
Nuclear Physicists
Oleksandr Dubovyk
A group composition of scientists in the flattened, graphic manner of the Thaw-era austere style, from the period when Dubovyk was still working within an approved Soviet subject range. It marks the last phase before his turn to abstraction.
Kobza
Veniamin Kushnir
A kobzar with his instrument, one of Kushnir's recurring images of the blind wandering singer as bearer of Ukrainian memory, drawn in the flattened, contour-led manner he took from folk painting.
The Dzerzhynsk Dam
Volodymyr Zhuhan
A wide horizontal canvas of the dam serving the Dzerzhynskyi metallurgical works, characteristic of Zhuhan's industrial landscapes of the 1960s.
The Indestructible Sophia of Kyiv
Yurii Khymych
Saint Sophia Cathedral rendered in Khymych's mature manner of open colour and heavy black contour, the title borrowed from the ancient epithet of the Kyivan cathedral. Ukrposhta reproduced the painting on an 80-kopiyka stamp in 2005.
New Street
Serhii Shyshko
A wide new Kyiv thoroughfare of the 1960s seen in soft afternoon light — a modern apartment block, a glazed kiosk, street lamps, passers-by and cars — painted with the loose, silvery touch typical of Shyshko's Kyivan Suite.
Boats
Liuboslav Hutsaliuk
A small, heavily worked panel of moored boats, showing how Hutsaliuk carried the same vertical impasto and narrow colour range from his large city canvases into intimate formats.
Prometheuses, Earth, Fire (mosaics of School No. 5, Donetsk)
Viktor Zaretskyi
Zaretskyi's contribution to the nine-panel mosaic cycle made in 1965–1966 by a collective led by Hryhorii Synytsia with Alla Horska, Halyna Zubchenko and Hennadii Marchenko. The central «Прометеї» panel sets two figures raising a flame among cosmic spirals and folk-ornament suns; the cycle fuses Ukrainian folk decoration, Baroque and Mexican muralism.
Bouquet
Oleksandr Dubovyk
The pivotal canvas of Dubovyk's career, in which the flower is reduced to a circle and a square and stops being a depiction to become a sign. Every later cycle in his work descends from this reduction.
Prometheuses (mosaic cycle of School No. 5, Donetsk)
Alla Horska
The central panel of a nine-part cycle made in 1965–1966 by a collective led by Hryhorii Synytsia with Alla Horska, Halyna Zubchenko, Viktor Zaretskyi and Hennadii Marchenko: two figures raise a flame between cosmic spirals and folk-ornament suns. Eight smaller panels — «Космос», «Вода», «Вогонь», «Земля», «Життя», «Надра», «Сонце», «Повітря/Верба» — were completed in 1965, the central «Прометеї» in 1966.
Kestrel (Boryviter)
Alla Horska
A hovering kestrel built from smalt, its silver-grey plumage spread across a sun and a field of blue that answered the sea visible from the restaurant windows; the bird was read as an emblem of artistic freedom. Made with a team including Viktor Zaretskyi, Halyna Zubchenko, Borys Plaksii, Hryhorii Pryshedko, Vasyl Prakhnin and Nadiia Svitlychna in under two months, rediscovered behind a wall during a 2008 renovation, and destroyed with its companion panel during the Russian bombardment of Mariupol in 2022. It gave its name to Horska's 2024 retrospective at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv. Also referred to in Ukrainian sources as «Птах-мрія».
Khreshchatyk
Yurii Khymych
Kyiv's main avenue seen as a stacked, frontal composition of post-war facades — one of the city subjects that made Khymych's reputation as a painter of 'portraits of buildings'. Reproduced by Ukrposhta on a 2005 stamp.
Wind
Alla Horska
An abstract composition begun in 1967 and finished in 1968 by Horska with Viktor Zaretskyi and Borys Plaksii, fusing folk-ornament motifs with a Ukrainian avant-garde vocabulary. It is one of the few Horska mosaics still in place in Kyiv.
Windfall
Roman Selskyi
A Carpathian forest floor of storm-thrown spruce, the shattered trunks flattened into pale calligraphic shapes against a dense dark green ground worked in heavy impasto. Bought by the gallery directly from Selskyi in 1980.
Youth
Tetiana Yablonska
A boy with a rucksack stands at the edge of a small blue pond on a green pasture; Yablonska began the picture as a study of the pond at Sedniv and asked the boy, who wandered over from a nearby sports camp, to pose. Ukrainian critics read it as a manifesto of solitary self-possession and a step away from doctrinal Socialist Realism.
Sunflowers After the Rain
Volodymyr Sydoruk
Pea Beast
Mariia Prymachenko
A fantastical creature whose body is covered with pea-like ornament, from the animal series in which Prymachenko gave invented beasts human eyes and an ambiguous moral character. Issued as one of the two 1999 Ukrposhta stamps honouring the artist.
Still Life with Lemons
Serhii Shyshko
A small oil-on-cardboard still life of lemons from the strand of Shyshko's work that ran alongside his Kyiv cityscapes, where the loose, high-keyed handling of his landscape studies is turned on a table-top subject.
Village Above the Dnipro
Volodymyr Zhuhan
A panoramic view of a settlement on the high bank of the Dnipro, one of the lyrical counterparts to Zhuhan's industrial subjects.
Mothers
Veniamin Kushnir
A group of Ukrainian mothers rendered as near-iconic, monumental figures — the central work in the cycle on motherhood that runs through Kushnir's painting from the 1960s onward.
Kodra Village
Fedir Konovaliuk
A named-place village view of Kodra, in the Kyiv region, typical of Konovaliuk's insistence that a landscape record a specific settlement rather than a generic rural scene.
Still Life with Lilies of the Valley
Serhii Shyshko
A larger flower still life of lilies of the valley, exhibited in the 2006 Shyshko solo show at the Kyiv Museum of Russian Art and in NU ART's 'Ukrainian Still Life of the 20th Century' (2009). It belongs with the flower pieces gathered in the 1980 postcard set 'The Flowers of Serhii Shyshko'.
Spring in the Bee-garden
Mykola Maksymenko
Painted hives stand under a cherry tree in full blossom, the whole surface built from short loaded strokes of pink, blue and acid green. Catalogue entry #86 in the artist's 2007 monograph.
“A Poplar in the Water. Koncha-Zaspa”
Vasyl Nepyipyvo
Television in the Night
Oleksandr Dubovyk
A tempera sheet from the mid-1970s in which a glowing rectangle in the dark becomes another of Dubovyk's ambiguous signs, part image and part window. It comes from the group of works Norton Dodge smuggled out of the USSR.
Spring Flowers
Volodymyr Zhuhan
A large-format floral still life from the mid-1970s, showing the side of Zhuhan's practice furthest from his industrial commissions.
Flax
Tetiana Yablonska
A woman gathering flax in a striped, receding field, painted in the muted earth register of Yablonska's late-1970s village pictures. It won her the USSR State Prize in 1979 and was chosen by Ukrposhta in 2017 for its 'Famous Women of Ukraine' stamp marking her centenary.
Wild Chaplun
Mariia Prymachenko
One of Prymachenko's invented beasts, named from the verb "chapaty" (to trudge) and built around enormous clawed feet able to push through the thickets of life. Reproduced on the 1999 Ukrposhta stamp pair dedicated to the artist.
Tablets
Oleksandr Dubovyk
A square canvas from Dubovyk's underground years, in which his invented signs are laid out like inscriptions on stone tablets. The title makes explicit the quasi-scriptural status he gave his own pictorial alphabet.
Landscape
Havrylo Hliuk
Autumn Landscape
Fedir Konovaliuk
A late upright autumn panel from Konovaliuk's ninth decade, still working the same small format and the same close attention to the colour of a particular season.
Roses and Snowdrops
Serhii Shyshko
An upright spring still life of cut roses and snowdrops, from the flower pieces Shyshko painted alongside his landscapes in the 1960s–80s.
Houses in Chornohora
Roman Selskyi
Highland houses in the Chornohora range, from the Carpathian series Selskyi worked on for three decades, reduced to blocks of colour and roofline. Shown repeatedly in NU ART's Selskyi retrospectives, including 'Roman Selskyi. Modernism and Magic' (2018) and his 120th-anniversary exhibition (2023).
Black Square
Oleksandr Dubovyk
A large square canvas answering Malevych directly, painted at the height of Dubovyk's nonconformist period and acquired by Norton Dodge for his collection of unofficial Soviet art. Dubovyk's debt to Malevych's construction of space runs through the whole series.
A window in the workshop
Vladyslav Mamsikov
the painting
The Moon Rose over the Dnipro
Ivan Marchuk
A moonlit nocturne over the Dnipro, Marchuk's largest treatment of a moonlit night, in which the whole surface is spun from fine looping filaments of paint. In June 2024 it set an auction record for a contemporary Ukrainian artist at the Goldens house in Kyiv.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Volodymyr Sydoruk
Crimean Window
Roman Selskyi
A window motif that fuses still life and landscape: a spotted jug, a bowl of grapes and a straw hat on a table in front of an open frame giving onto tiled roofs, a rooster, cypresses and a pink Crimean mountain. Donated to the gallery by Selskyi himself in 1984.
By the Spring. Olbia
Haiane Ataian
Ataian's diploma painting from the Kyiv State Art Institute, set at the ancient Greek site of Olbia on the Black Sea coast. The museum also holds some twenty preparatory studies and drawings for it, making it one of her most thoroughly documented works.
Dreaming of the Sky
Viktor Hvozdynskyi
An early large-format watercolour from the artist's first decade in Rivne, listed among his defining works in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine.
Supper of the Grain Growers
Nataliia Verhun
A large square canvas of farm workers at their evening meal in the field, the best-known of Verhun's village genre paintings and the work chosen to represent her in the Kharkiv artists' directory.
Spring near Lviv
Liubomyr Medvid
A bare tree with its top lopped off throws a deep shadow across the foreground, while beyond a thin fence stand a two-storey house, outbuildings and a power pole. It is a compact example of the suburban Galician landscape Medvid painted through the mid-1980s.
“What kind of miracle is this?”
Marfa Tymchenko
Portrait of the People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Tetiana Tsymbal
Viktor Zaretskyi
A late portrait from the period in which Zaretskyi absorbed the Vienna Secession, the sitter set against a flattened field of gilded ornament in the manner that earned him the nickname "the Ukrainian Klimt".
From the series Rhythms. Kyiv
Oleksii Fishchenko
An untitled sheet from the Rhythms. Kyiv cycle, signed and dated by the artist at lower right, and the earliest securely dated print from the series located in this research. Its near-square format and flattened colour planes set the pattern for the whole cycle.
Waiting
Yurii Lesiuk
One of the works cited by the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine among Lesiuk's principal canvases; a figurative composition built from flattened decorative planes.
Waves
Marfa Tymchenko
Lesia Ukrainka in Egypt
Veniamin Kushnir
A late imagined portrait of the poet Lesia Ukrainka during her convalescent travels in Egypt, painted as the Soviet system was collapsing and Kushnir's work turned openly to Ukrainian cultural heroes.
A September Morning
Yurii Yehorov
Still Life with Lilacs
Volodymyr Sydoruk
Interior Decor with Apples
Yevhen Hordiiets
Mystery of Dusk, from the series Rhythms. Kyiv
Oleksii Fishchenko
A twilight view of Kyiv in which domes and rooflines are pressed into overlapping bands of deepening colour. It is one of four sheets from the cycle held by the Khmelnytskyi museum.
Self-Portrait with a Candle
Veniamin Kushnir
Kushnir's last self-portrait, painted the year before his death and the year of Ukrainian independence: the artist lit by a single candle, a summing-up of a career spent largely outside official art.
Woman, Seashell and Jug
In Daylight Radiance, from the series Rhythms. Kyiv
Oleksii Fishchenko
The daylight counterpart within the cycle, with the city dissolved into high-keyed planes of light. The artist inscribed the title in pencil in six lines on the reverse.
Break of Evening Light, from the series Rhythms. Kyiv
Oleksii Fishchenko
Evening light fractures across the Kyiv skyline, the composition built from the abrupt tonal breaks the title names. It shows how far Fishchenko pushed the multi-board linocut toward the effect of painting.
Generous Evening
Viktor Nakonechnyi
A Ukrainian Christmas-Eve ritual scene, one of the works singled out by the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine as representative of Nakonechnyi's calendar-rite cycle. It shows the shchedrivka carolling tradition of the Podillian village rendered in his folk-inflected oil technique.
Fog
Haiane Ataian
A square canvas in which landscape is almost dissolved into mist, typical of the atmospheric painting Ataian pursued through the 1990s. Fog and rising damp recur across her work as a way of flattening depth into tone.
Autumn Still Life
Mykola Maksymenko
Pears, grapes, apricots and rose hips piled on a heavy embroidered towel against a cold blue ground — a characteristic example of what critics called Maksymenko's monumental treatment of the still life. Catalogue entry #259.
Southwestern Sunset
Yurii Yehorov
Tell Me the Truth
Ivan Marchuk
A frontal, icon-like female figure sheathed in a bristling armour of thread-fine strands, cupping a lit candle set inside a pale flower. Ukrposhta reproduced the painting in full on a 2.40 UAH definitive stamp in 2016.
Garden of Temptation
Ivan Marchuk
A still life from Marchuk's mature pliontanizm period, built from dense threads of colour. In June 2022 it sold for USD 120,000 at a charity auction in Kyiv with the proceeds going to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, placing it fifth in Lokalna Istoriia's ranking of the most expensive paintings by Ukrainian artists.
Sensation
Viktor Hvozdynskyi
One of the artist's late-1990s subject compositions rather than a landscape, singled out in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine as a signature work of that period.
Still Life with a Violin and a Pear
Vladyslav Mamsikov
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By the Spring
Ihor Havryshkevych
An early canvas in the flat, folk-derived colour that became the artist's signature, published by the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
Autumn in Blossoms
Mykola Maksymenko
A late, almost hallucinatory bouquet of pale chrysanthemums crowding over a table of fruit and painted ceramics, made when the artist was seventy-seven. Catalogue entry #283.
Evening Stars
Marfa Tymchenko
The Village Like a Pysanka
Yurii Lesiuk
A Carpathian village rendered as brightly as a painted Easter egg — the closest thing in Lesiuk's reproduced work to an Easter picture, and a clear statement of his decorative, folk-rooted colour.
Prayer
Ihor Havryshkevych
A figure composition on a devotional theme, published by the Lviv National Academy of Arts among the representative works of its academic painting department.
An old wardrobe
Vladyslav Mamsikov
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Jack the Dog
Vladyslav Mamsikov
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Sunflowers in Bloom
Viktor Nakonechnyi
A late still-life/landscape of blossoming sunflowers, listed by the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine among the artist's key oil and tempera paintings. Sunflowers recur across his work as an emblem of the Podillian countryside.
Orchestra
Mykola Ovsiiko
A 2007 canvas in the Odesa Museum of Contemporary Art, and the best-documented single work in Ovsiiko's output. It is one of the two paintings the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine dates to 2007.
Carpathian Night
Anatolii Kryvolap
From the Carpathians series begun in 2000, part of the 'Ukrainian Motif' cycle: mountain ridges compressed into flat, deep bands of night colour.
By the Old Storehouse
Ihor Havryshkevych
A village scene beside an old wooden granary, from the artist's series on ancestral Ukrainian life.
Evening. Steppe
Anatolii Kryvolap
A square steppe landscape from the Meditative Landscape series, where the horizon becomes a single hot band of colour between earth and sky.
Horse. Night
Anatolii Kryvolap
From the Horse series begun in 2005, in which the animal is reduced to a silhouette floating in a field of saturated night colour. A canvas of this title sold at Phillips de Pury in London in October 2011 for about $124,000, then a world record for contemporary Ukrainian art.
I was thirteen
Oleh Shupliak
A boy pasturing lambs outside a village, after the opening lines of Shevchenko's poem; the pastoral scene simultaneously forms the poet's own face. One of Shupliak's most reproduced dvovzory.
Wires
Anton Lohov
An early small canvas in oil and industrial enamel, part of the infrastructural strand — cables, poles, depots — that runs through Lohov's 2010–2011 work.
Double portrait of Van Gogh
Oleh Shupliak
A Provençal landscape in Van Gogh's own manner that simultaneously reads as the Dutch painter's head and shoulders.
Forest Song. Lesya Ukrainka
Oleh Shupliak
A woodland scene from Lesya Ukrainka's drama 'The Forest Song' that resolves into the writer's portrait.
Bird Cherry
Anna Yarmoliuk
A spring wood with bird-cherry bushes in flower at the forest edge, a cyclist on the path and a dog running behind. A characteristic Yarmoliuk narrative squeezed into a small horizontal sheet.
Spring Lace
Viktor Hvozdynskyi
A small square canvas in which bare spring branches are worked into an all-over decorative tracery — the "lace" of the title — against a thawing landscape. Catalogued by the Rivne Regional Library as no. 56 of the artist's oil paintings.
Summer
Yevhen Hordiiets
Frosty Monday
Anna Yarmoliuk
A winter street with a woman, a child and a dog walking away from the viewer. The title's flat weekday specificity is typical of the artist's diaristic approach to naming.
Mirror of Ukraine
Anatolii Kryvolap
From the Evening series in the 'Ukrainian Motif' cycle: still water holding the whole of a Ukrainian dusk, painted the year after the Shevchenko Prize.
Babylon, from the series Reminiscences. The Prodigal Son
Liubomyr Medvid
A frontal human figure with its head thrown back is set against an ochre plane broken by blue accents and geometric forms. The canvas belongs to the Prodigal Son strand of the cycle for which Medvid received the Shevchenko National Prize.
Two in the Forest
Anna Yarmoliuk
A person and a dog walking through woodland, rendered in the flattened, simplified naive manner that characterises the artist's oil-pastel work. One of her larger sheets at 35 × 50 cm.
Frescoes of Kholodnyi Yar
Ihor Havryshkevych
One of the artist's best-known canvases, from the historical cycles that grew out of his journeys through Ukraine; Kholodnyi Yar is the forest tract that has stood for Ukrainian insurgency since the Haidamaka risings.
Hutsul Feast
Viktor Hvozdynskyi
A large, high-keyed Carpathian subject picture in the decorative, folk-inflected manner of the artist's later oils. Catalogued as no. 65 of his oil paintings.
Sunrise
Oleksandr Shcherbyna
A large pastel of a winter village at daybreak. The artist recorded that the work came from a holiday spent in the countryside: "Arriving in winter for the holidays and rising in the morning, I saw a wonderful sunrise."
Road Under Old Trees
Anna Yarmoliuk
A tree-lined road receding into the distance, one of the artist's few pure landscapes without figures. The year 2014 is inferred from the filename of the gallery's own image asset, as no date is printed on the listing.
Wide Dnipr roars and groans!
Oleh Shupliak
A storm over the Dnipro, taking its title from Shevchenko's ballad 'Prychynna', in which the churning river and clouds compose a hidden face.
Wedding in Kovalivka
Yurii Lesiuk
A large acrylic on paper set in the artist's native village, and the most recent work in the ESU list of his principal pictures. Village wedding ritual is one of his lifelong subjects.
Old Woman with a Dog
Anna Yarmoliuk
An elderly woman walking her dog down a snowy street, painted on a sheet barely bigger than a postcard. It condenses the artist's whole subject — ordinary people, ordinary weather — into one small image.
Shaian. Homage to Andy Warhol
Anton Lohov
A large canvas naming the Transcarpathian spa village of Shaian and dedicating itself to Andy Warhol — an early instance of Lohov's habit of routing his own subjects through art history.
The morning moon
Oleksandr Shcherbyna
A framed pastel landscape holding the moon in a pale early sky, worked in the realist manner that runs through the artist's drawings.
Fireflies (Lucciole)
Kateryna Kosianenko
Painted during the artist's residency in Frontino, Italy, in 2015; the Italian subtitle "lucciole" points to the summer fireflies of the Marche hills. One of the key works of her Frontino cycle.
Pumpkins with blue
Yurii Klapoukh
Obolon Bestiary
Kateryna Kosianenko
A wide horizontal frieze from the "Graffiti for Anna" cycle, populating the artist's own Kyiv district of Obolon with a medieval-style bestiary of beasts and hybrid creatures.
Inertia
Anton Lohov
A 2016 canvas in acrylic and enamel, sold at Goldens sale 29; the title continues the mechanical vocabulary of the "Climate Control" years.
On the river Tisza in summer
Oleksandr Shandor
Summer on the Tysa, the river that runs past the artist's native Vynohradiv, painted in full sunlight with heavy impasto and reflected colour.
Road to autumn
Oleksandr Shandor
A country road running between trees turning gold, built up in warm yellows against cooler shadow. One of the artist's recurring seasonal landscapes.
Evening chores
Oleksandr Shandor
A Transcarpathian farmyard at dusk, the last low light picking out the work still being finished. Oil on cardboard in the artist's warm impressionist manner.
Chicken coop
Oleksandr Shandor
An unglamorous village outbuilding turned into a study of dappled light and broken colour, typical of the artist's attention to ordinary Transcarpathian yards.
Christmas Sale
Kateryna Kosianenko
A large square composition in which the Nativity is transposed into the crowded commercial bustle of a contemporary Ukrainian city at Christmas.
Young Married Woman
Yurii Lesiuk
A late portrait in Lesiuk's decorative folk idiom, with the sitter's embroidered dress flattened into ornamental colour planes.
Spectrum
Ilona Shymchyts
Twelve triangles of different colours and a scatter of circles stand for the spectrum; the artist describes every circle as a reflection of one single circle.
Landscape with black cow
Yevhen Hordiiets
Mandala
Oleksandr Dubovyk
A large late canvas in which Dubovyk's lifelong vocabulary of signs is organised into a single centred, radiating figure. It shows the explicitly meditative and cosmological turn of his work past the age of eighty.
Kyiv Mamai
Kateryna Kosianenko
One of many reworkings of the folk Cossack Mamai icon that run through Kosianenko's output; here the seated Cossack is relocated to a recognisably Kyiv setting.
Expance
Ilona Shymchyts
A large square abstraction in acrylic, catalogued by Saatchi Art as abstract and conceptual. Only a print edition is currently offered; the original measures 100 × 100 cm.
March Outside the City
Olha Kvasha
A late-winter landscape outside town, painted in a modernist key on a palette of greys, beiges, whites, pinks and browns. This is the only Kvasha work in this set with a documented year, medium and size.
Digital Cottage
Mariia Holub
A traditional Ukrainian whitewashed cottage rebuilt out of pixel-like cells and glittering ornament, collapsing folk architecture into a digital surface. It is the clearest statement of Holub's move between village iconography and screen aesthetics.
War in Ukraine
Vladyslav Zadvorskyi
A 2022 canvas responding directly to the full-scale Russian invasion, and the work the artist offered for sale to support the war effort.
Emerald Breath of the Danube
Zlata Shyshman
A wide panoramic view of the Danube in green summer light, painted in her native Izmail region. Sold through the Odesa gallery Dim Khudozhnykiv.
Lineage
Mariia Holub
A painting about descent and family memory, organised as a branching ornamental structure in the manner of a genealogical tree. It belongs to the group of works in which Holub treats pattern itself as a carrier of inherited meaning.
Light
Anton Lohov
A 2022 acrylic canvas, the most recent of Lohov's works catalogued by the Goldens auction house (sale 53, lot 27). English title is a direct rendering of the documented Ukrainian «Світло».
Scarce Swallowtail
Mariia Holub
A scarce swallowtail butterfly rendered as a field of interlocking patterned cells in high-keyed colour. The insect's wings become a pretext for the lacework structure that gave the exhibition its title.
Evil must die!
Oleh Shupliak
An allegory of evil built from destroyed Russian military vehicles bearing the 'Z', inverted 'V' and 'O' invasion markings, painted on 5 April 2022. The artist released it himself under a free licence.
Plants Labirynth
Yurii Vatkin
A dense, all-over tangle of plant forms dissolved into impasto strokes. The artist describes wanting to merge with the labyrinths that nature builds.
Courtyard on Kanatna Street
Zlata Shyshman
One of the old inner courtyards of central Odesa on Kanatna Street, painted from life in strong daylight.
Water lily
Yevhen Cherniakovskyi
A close-up of a single cluster of water lilies among broad pads, with purple petals and yellow-red centres set against deep blue reflections. One of the earlier dated works in the artist's lily series.
Colors of the Unconscious
Yurii Vatkin
A square canvas from Vatkin's central "Unconscious" theme, built from heavy textured strokes and described by the artist as a fairy-tale landscape of the changeable mind.
Golden Armour
Yurii Vatkin
A horizontal abstraction dominated by burnished golds and ochres, part of the body of work Vatkin made after evacuating his occupied village near Kharkiv.
Free
Maksym Polyvianyi
A tall vertical landscape painted in 2023, the title reading as a statement about the land itself.
Somewhere in the South
Oleh Savka
A sun-struck southern street corner, with the light burning across one edge of an awning. The artist notes that its warm, bright colour deliberately suggests an old southern city — Italy, Spain or Greece.
Spring
Oleksandr Shcherbyna
A small spring landscape étude in oil on pressed cardboard, built from loose, light-driven strokes. One of a run of seasonal studies the artist made in 2024.
Spring in Bulgaria
Oleksandr Shcherbyna
A wide, panoramic spring scene painted in Bulgaria, one of the works the artist made outside Ukraine. Oil on pressed cardboard in a realist register.
Tree of Life 4 (Cerberus)
Valentyna Huk
Made from shards collected on Soborna Street in Izium after the town's occupation and continuing shelling, and dedicated to Oleksandr Pustovit, a Ukrainian commander killed in action. Huk made it deliberately for a town close to the front line rather than for Kharkiv.
Tree of Life 2 (Eye of War)
Valentyna Huk
One of two panels installed beside Kharkiv's Palace of Labour, made entirely from glass gathered in the building's own courtyards after a strike. The composition resolves into a single watching eye set in the branching tree form.
Tree of Life 3 (Rumble)
Valentyna Huk
The companion panel to "Eye of War" at the Palace of Labour, titled after the sound of incoming fire. Both were built from the same collection of shards so that the glass would stay on the site where it was broken.
Late Afternoon
Oleh Savka
The Pidhorskyi house in Kyiv — popularly the "Baron's Castle" — half hidden behind the building in front of it, its turrets caught in late light. Painted with a palette knife in heavy relief.
Tree of Life 1 (Dream)
Valentyna Huk
The first street work of the "Tree of Life" series, assembled from glass broken by a Russian strike near the artist's own home and mounted on Myronosytska Street. It set the rule that each panel returns the shattered glass to the place it came from.
Ukrainian Night
Maksym Polyvianyi
A village at night reduced to a few dark tonal masses and one warm lit window, the core image of the artist's night series.
Cossack Across the Steppe
Maksym Polyvianyi
A lone rider crossing open steppe, reduced to a silhouette against a broad tonal sky — the artist's one recurring historical motif.
By the Old Mill
Maksym Polyvianyi
A wooden windmill standing in flat evening light, painted in the artist's characteristic near-monochrome register.
Evening on Sobornaia Square
Zlata Shyshman
Sobornaia Square in Odesa at dusk, the trees and the cathedral dissolving into evening light.
Tree of Life 5 (Beetle)
Valentyna Huk
Built from glass broken at the Makers café when the building of the National Academy of Legal Sciences was hit on 23 January 2024. Unlike the outdoor panels, it hangs inside the café that supplied its material.
Walking along Khreshchatyk
Serhii Poliakov
A group of figures strolling on Khreshchatyk, painted as an impressionist crowd study against Kyiv's post-war architecture.
Autumn Sky over Khreshchatyk
Serhii Poliakov
A wide horizontal view down Kyiv's main boulevard under a high autumn sky, with a crowd of passers-by and period cars worked into the foreground.
Clash of Reflections
Yurii Vatkin
A recent abstraction in which mirrored colour masses collide across the canvas, continuing the artist's signature coarse impasto handling.
Radiance Above the Horizon
Anatolii Misiuk
A wide landscape in which the whole upper two thirds of the canvas is given to light breaking above a low horizon.
River with water lilies
Yevhen Cherniakovskyi
A larger river scene with lilies drifting on the surface, painted in the artist's characteristic lush, energetic strokes. The original has sold; the gallery notes the artist accepts custom orders for similar works.
Landscape with Cows on the Field
Ilona Shymchyts
A pastoral scene built on contrast, pairing vibrant golden fields against deep shadowy greens, with subtle gradients used to carry the natural light.
Breath of Height
Anatolii Misiuk
A square canvas of towering cloud seen from below, which the artist described as a reminder to climb higher and dream more boldly. Sold.
Blossoming chestnuts for lovers
Serhii Poliakov
Kyiv's chestnut trees in flower, the city's emblematic spring motif, treated in a loose impressionist-modernist manner.
May Night
Maksym Polyvianyi
The artist's largest night landscape to date, a spring village under moonlight worked across a wide horizontal canvas.
Snowy Roof
Ilona Shymchyts
A winter view of a village roof under snow, characteristic of the quiet, meditative rural architecture that dominates Shymchyts's recent landscape work.
Water lilies
Yevhen Cherniakovskyi
A small horizontal pond study of water lilies built from thick, loaded brushstrokes, signed by the artist on both front and back. This is the 2025 "Water lilies" requested for this collection, verified on the artist's ArtMajeur catalogue.
The Annunciation
Oleh Savka
Old Podil in golden light with the dome of the Church of the Annunciation at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy behind it. The artist dedicated the painting to the events in Sumy of 13 April 2025: "We will not forget. We will not forgive."
Blooming Haze
Vira Kavura
A softly diffused floral mass in which Kavura lets the coloured pastel paper show through to create atmosphere.
Water Lilies
Yevhen Cherniakovskyi
A recent upright pond painting with white and pink lilies among green pads, the water surface worked in dynamic blues and turquoises that answer a cloud-dappled sky. It shows the artist's confident impasto handling of light on water.
Before Sleep
Anatolii Misiuk
A small square nocturne: cloud massing over a darkening landscape just as the last light goes. Published by the artist as available for purchase.
Glimpse
Anatolii Misiuk
One of the artist's smallest formats — a break of light in a bank of cloud, framed by the Lviv workshop iz.drov.
The Warmest Days
Vira Kavura
A vertical summer bouquet in warm light, one of the artist's recent studio pastels painted from a live arrangement.
Cosmos and Zinnias
Vira Kavura
A late-summer bouquet of cosmos and zinnias painted from life, typical of Kavura's high-key realist pastel handling.
Evening Square
Vladyslav Zadvorskyi
An urban evening scene, third in the Irpin press ranking of the artist's best works.
Clothing designs and costumes
Liubov Panchenko
Panchenko's work as an artist-designer at the Project-Design Technology Institute and the Republican House of Models: garment drawings, headwear studies, finished costumes and embroidery samples in which Ukrainian ornament is carried into modern dress. Individual models are not separately titled in the sources consulted.
Carpathian Melodies (Carpathian studies)
Liubov Panchenko
A series of Carpathian studies in watercolour and gouache, using both traditional and wet, washed-out technique: Hutsul men and women in embroidered coats and headscarves, interiors with pottery, and green mountain fields. Shown by the Museum of the Sixtiers as «Карпатські мелодії»; no individual sheet titles or dates are recorded in the sources consulted.
Spring Cathedral
Vladyslav Zadvorskyi
A church seen through spring blossom, one of the artist's recurring Irpin motifs.
Fields of Ukraine
Vira Kavura
A field-flower pastel from the artist's own gallery, and one of the few of her works whose title names her country directly. Neither the year nor the dimensions are published.
Evening Kyiv
Orest Kuziv
A small nocturne of historic Kyiv built on the contrast between warm evening light and deep night tones. The composition is deliberately spare, with light and shadow carrying most of the picture.
Lilies of the Valley
Nadiia Poluian-Vnukova
A close still life of lilies of the valley, showing the minute botanical detail the artist is known for. Wild forest and field flowers in simple vessels are one of her signature genres.
Moonlit Night
Mykola Ge
A nocturne painted at Ge's own khutir Ivanivskyi in Chernihiv gubernia, sometimes catalogued as Moonlit Night. Farmstead. It belongs to the small group of Ukrainian landscapes in which the moralist of the Passion cycle let himself work as a pure romantic of light.
Nostalgia
Nadiia Poluian-Vnukova
A memory-driven composition typical of the artist's central theme, the sunlit village world of her childhood. Reproduced under this Ukrainian title in the Romny literary-historical almanac.
Around the Campfire
Mykola Yatsurak
Figures gathered around a shepherds' bonfire ('vatra') in the high pastures, a central image of Hutsul pastoral life.
Landscape near Kharkiv
Serhii Vasylkivskyi
A small oil study of the countryside outside Kharkiv, dated by art-catalog.ru to the 1890s (not the 1900s) and held by the National Art Museum of Ukraine. Part of the large body of intimate Sloboda Ukraine studies Vasylkivskyi painted close to home.
Blind Kobzar
Kostiantyn Trutovskyi
A blind kobzar with his bandura, the wandering singer who carried Ukrainian historical song from village to village. Trutovskyi returned to the figure more than once, most famously in his 1875 canvas placing Shevchenko himself with a kobza above the Dnipro.
White Roosters
Polina Raiko
Two large white roosters with green and red highlights facing each other across a bedroom wall, among the most reproduced images from the house. Roosters, storks and owls were Raiko's recurring guardians of the domestic interior.
The Fisherman
Polina Raiko
Raiko's husband Mykola shown as a bearded fisherman-boatman playing a stringed instrument amid rows of coloured bottles, an unsparing but affectionate account of his drinking. It is the clearest example of her turning family biography directly into mural narrative.
Putting On the Wreath
Kostiantyn Trutovskyi
Young women crown a girl with a flower wreath, a ritual gesture that runs through Ukrainian summer festivals and wedding custom alike. It is Trutovskyi at his most ethnographic, recording dress and gesture as carefully as the mood.
By the Water Well
Kostiantyn Trutovskyi
A courtship scene at the village well, the recognised meeting place of Ukrainian rural life. Trutovskyi uses the crane-well and the pails as much for their silhouette as for their narrative.
Evening on the Donets
Serhii Komornyi
Dusk over the Siverskyi Donets river near Chuhuiv, one of the artist's home landscapes.
Portrait of the Honoured Artist of Ukraine V. V. Chursin
Serhii Komornyi
One of a group of pastel portraits of fellow painters, made in the psychological-portrait vein that Komornyi is best known for.
Spring in the Carpathians
Ihor Khilko
A Carpathian mountain landscape at the turn of the season, built on the cold blues of lingering snow against the first warm greens of spring. Note: the catalogue that records this work lists the title in Russian («Весна в Карпатах»); the Ukrainian form given here is a straightforward rendering, not a documented Ukrainian title.
Evening Falls
Ihor Khilko
A dusk landscape in which the artist's interest in fading, low-angle light governs the whole colour scheme. Ukrainian title is a straightforward rendering of the catalogued Russian title «Вечереет».
The Orchard
Volodymyr Zhuhan
An undated orchard landscape; the gallery explicitly records the work as "Не датовано" (not dated), so no year is asserted here.
Eagle at the Fourth Block
Mariia Prymachenko
Part of Prymachenko's Chornobyl cycle, in which a great bird presides over the ruined fourth reactor block; the same cycle produced "Flowers Grew Near the Fourth Block" (1990). Photographed at the 2023 Kyiv exhibition of a hundred works never previously shown in public.
Psel
Denys Horodnychyi
A small oil study of the Psel, the river that runs through the Poltava region and recurs throughout Horodnychyi's work. No year is recorded by the gallery.
After the May rain
Denys Horodnychyi
One of several paintings in which Horodnychyi works on the specific washed, high-contrast light of the moments after rain.
Autumn Still Life
Ihor Khilko
An autumn arrangement of fruit and foliage, one of the seasonal still lifes that run through Khilko's easel work. Ukrainian title is a straightforward rendering of the Russian-language catalogue entry «Осенний натюрморт».
Spring Motif
Ihor Khilko
A large spring landscape, the biggest of Khilko's works recorded in the art-katalog listing. Ukrainian title is a straightforward rendering of the catalogued Russian title «Весенний мотив».
Portrait of a Ukrainian Boy
Mykola Ge
A study head of a village boy from the Chernihiv countryside around Ge's farmstead, painted with none of the ethnographic prettiness of the period. It is one of a small group of peasant portraits — with Old Peasant — that Ge made among his neighbours.
Evening coolness of the Dnieper
Denys Horodnychyi
A small evening view on the Dnipro, sold framed; the cooling light on the water is the whole subject.
Breath of summer
Denys Horodnychyi
An unframed summer landscape, at 47 × 44 cm one of the larger canvases in the artist's current Artfinder catalogue.
Sunbeam
Ivan Trush
The Broad Dnipro Roars and Moans
Mykola Burachek
Winter Fairy Tale. Pyrohovo
Serhii Komornyi
Snow-covered vernacular architecture at the Pyrohovo open-air museum of folk architecture outside Kyiv.
Owls
Polina Raiko
Black-and-gold owls with individually characterised faces, read by commentators as a tribute to Raiko's sisters, one of them shown with a blackbird in its beak. The owl is the closest thing in the house to a self-portrait motif.
Apple Blossom
Serhii Komornyi
A close, high-key pastel of an apple tree in full bloom, typical of the artist's spring plein-air work.
Sea Coast
Ivan Trush
Storks
Polina Raiko
White storks with yellow feet and red eyes carrying yellow flowers on their backs, painted in the national bird's traditional role as bringer of good fortune to a house. Part of the continuous band of birds that ran through every room.
Coming to Spring
Mykola Yatsurak
A Carpathian foothill landscape at the turn from winter to spring, with melting snow among the village fences.
Pilgrimage to Uzhok
Adalbert Erdeli
A large canvas of a pilgrimage in the Carpathian village of Uzhok, dated by Commons to the 1920s. Ukrainian Wikipedia captions it circa 1930.
An Apple Tree I Know
Olha Kvasha
A portrait of a single apple tree treated as an acquaintance rather than a motif, showing the intimate, storytelling register of Kvasha's titles. Apple trees and orchards recur throughout her work.
Ukrainian Landscape
Volodymyr Orlovskyi
Autumn on a Golden Horse
Olha Kvasha
An autumn landscape whose title turns the season into a rider on a golden horse, typical of Kvasha's habit of folding metaphor into an otherwise ordinary Ukrainian view. Medium and year are not documented by the source gallery.
Once upon a time
Yurii Klapoukh
View near Lubny, Ukraine
Yosyp Krachkovskyi
An undated Poltava-region landscape recorded under this title in Sotheby's catalogues. It is the most specifically Ukrainian topographical subject in Krachkovskyi's surviving output.
Carpathian Patterns
Yurii & Khrystyna Todoruk
Carpathian Patterns
Yurii & Khrystyna Todoruk
Still Life with a Palette
Roman Selskyi
A studio still life built around the painter's own palette, the tool turned into subject, worked in the thick, tactile impasto and deliberately weighed colour relationships of Selskyi's mature manner. Signed lower right; catalogued by the Goldens auction house as 1970s rather than a single year.
Over Ukraine on a Fair Day
Olha Kvasha
A wide, bright view over the Ukrainian countryside under clear weather, one of the artist's overtly national subjects. Medium and year are not documented by the source gallery.
Carpathian Patterns
Yurii & Khrystyna Todoruk
The Morning After Christmas
Olha Kvasha
A winter scene set in the quiet that follows the Christmas feast, one of several Kvasha canvases built around Ukrainian holiday time. Medium and year are not documented by the source gallery.
Evacuation from Irpin
Vladyslav Zadvorskyi
A history painting of civilians fleeing Irpin across the destroyed bridge in March 2022, one of the defining images of the artist's wartime work.
Carpathian Patterns
Yurii & Khrystyna Todoruk
Carpathian Patterns
Yurii & Khrystyna Todoruk
Ukrainian Otaman
Vladyslav Zadvorskyi
A portrait of a Cossack chieftain, ranked first among the artist's ten best-known works by the Irpin city press in 2024.
Carpathian Patterns
Yurii & Khrystyna Todoruk
Flowers from Childhood
Nadiia Poluian-Vnukova
One of the artist's best-known titles, named in her Ukrainian Wikipedia entry among her signature works. It joins her two central preoccupations — wild flowers and remembered childhood.
A Day in March. Obolonnia
Nadiia Poluian-Vnukova
An early-spring view of Obolonnia, one of the two Romny localities the artist returns to again and again. The place name in the title anchors her work firmly to the Sumy region.
Carpathian Patterns
Yurii & Khrystyna Todoruk
Carpathian Patterns
Yurii & Khrystyna Todoruk
Holy Evening
Nadiia Poluian-Vnukova
A Ukrainian Christmas Eve interior, one of the artist's recurring holiday subjects rooted in her Romny childhood. Reproduced under this Ukrainian title in the Romny literary-historical almanac.
Winter Morning
Petro Levchenko
Requested priority title («Зимовий ранок» / 'Winter Morning').
Decorative compositions
Liubov Panchenko
A group of Panchenko's brightly keyed decorative compositions — birds, flowers and interlaced plant forms in flat orange, red, green and black — in which Ukrainian folk ornament is pushed towards near-abstraction. No individual titles or dates are recorded in the sources consulted, so this entry describes the group as exhibited.
Textile appliqués
Liubov Panchenko
Panchenko's fabric appliqués, the medium most associated with her: cut and layered cloth arranged into stylised birds, flowers and figures in red, black and ochre. The 2008 jubilee exhibition at the National Museum of Ukrainian Literature showed appliqués alongside paintings and graphics; Yevhen Sverstiuk said of that showing that the works "clearly bear the mark of genius".
Jasmine
Mykola Yatsurak
A study of jasmine in flower, from the group of garden-flower subjects that runs through the artist's work.
Frost on the Cheremosh
Mykola Yatsurak
The Cheremosh river in the Hutsul highlands under early frost, one of the artist's recurring Carpathian water motifs.
Bonfire
Orest Kuziv
A night scene in which a single flame cuts through surrounding darkness, one of the artist's characteristic studies of artificial light. The gallery reads the fire as a sign of life, warmth and renewal.
Kliuchiv Wedding
Mykola Yatsurak
A wedding procession in the artist's native village of Velykyi Kliuchiv, painted as a broad multi-figure ethnographic composition.
Angels on the Ceiling
Polina Raiko
Flying angels scattered across a ceiling filled with a sea of green and blue flowers, edged with a blue-and-yellow border. Painted between 1998 and 2004 as part of Raiko's total decoration of her own house.