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NIKOLAI GLUSHCHENKO (UKRAINIAN 1902-1977) A Pair of Landscapes,
1. Fields of Kaniv, 1969 oil on paperboard 42.8 x 48 cm (16 7/8 x 18 7/8 in.) signed lower right; titled on verso, stamp from the collection of [Yan] Yurovsky in Cyrillic on verso
2. Village by the Lake oil on paperboard 17 x 42.2 cm (6 5/8 x 16 5/8 in.) signed lower right; inscribed with a gifting dedication on verso, stamp from the collection of [Yan] Yurovsky in Cyrillic on verso
LOT NOTES A graduate of the Academy of Art in Berlin (1924), from 1925 Glushchenko worked in Paris where he immediately attracted the attention of French critics. From the Neue Sachlichkeit style of his Berlin period he changed to Post-Impressionism. Besides numerous French, Italian, Dutch, and later, Ukrainian landscapes, Glushchenko also painted still life, nudes, and portraits such as those of Oleksander Dovzhenko and Volodymyr Vynnychenko, as well as portraits commissioned by the Soviet government of the French writers Henri Barbusse, Romain Rolland, and Victor Margueritte and the painter Paul Signac. At the beginning of the 1930s, Gluschenko belonged to the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists and helped organize its large exhibition of Ukrainian, French, and Italian paintings at the National Museum in Lviv. In 1936 he moved to the USSR, but was allowed to live in Ukraine only after the war, when his works began to reflect an officially approved socialist realism. In the 1960s, having come into a close contact with new artistic trends, he revitalized his paintings with expressive colors, and assumed a leading position among Ukrainian colorists.