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Bookplate "О.П."

Petro Omelchenko

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-584
Author: Petro Omelchenko
Name: Bookplate "О.П."
Country: France
Technique: linocut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 7.1 x 8.8

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: bookplate (ex libris)
Provenance: Yaroslava Muzyka Fund

Information about author

Author: Petro Omelchenko
Artist's lifetime: 1894–1952
Country: Ukraine, France
Biography: Petro Omelchenko (September 22, 1894, Khorol town, Poltava region – February 21, 1952, Genevière-sur-Marne, France) was a Ukrainian graphic artist and painter. In 1914, he graduated from the Khorol Realschule and later continued his studies in Kyiv and Saint Petersburg. In 1920, he emigrated to Poland and later to the Czech Republic. He attended the Warsaw and Prague Academies of Arts. From 1928, he lived and worked in Paris. The main direction of Petro Omelchenko's creative work was applied and book graphics (woodcuts, linocuts, engravings on glass) and compositions on the theme of the life of workers and the homeless. The artist participated in exhibitions of Ukrainian artists in Paris, Prague, Lviv, and Berlin. A significant part of Omelchenko's artistic heritage was lost due to a fire in the artist's house in 1972.

Object description

Bookplate "О.П.".

Inscriptions

At the bottom left below the image is an inscription in pencil: "Paris". At the bottom right below the image is the author's signature (in pencil).

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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