Houses in Chornohora
Будинки у Чорногорі
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).
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Windfall
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.
Crimean Window
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.
Still Life with a Palette
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.
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