Tsar Kolos
Цар Колос
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.
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Related Works
Flowers Behind the Fence
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
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.
Bouquet of Flowers
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.
To the Altar
Ivan Yizhakevych
A genre scene depicting a Ukrainian wedding tradition (published before 1917; PD).