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Wind

Volodymyr Patyk

Basic information

ID: Г-V-1917
Author: Volodymyr Patyk
Name: Wind
Country: Ukraine
Material: toned paper Indian ink pastel whitewash
Dimensions: 35 x 50 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: landscape
Plot: Landscape
Provenance: Acquired from the artist Volodymyr Patyk, December 1980

Information about author

Author: Volodymyr Patyk
Artist's lifetime: 1926–2016
Country: Ukraine
Biography: Volodymyr Patyk (1926, Chornyi Ostriv [now Lviv Oblast] – 2016, Lviv) was a prominent Ukrainian artist and landscape painter. He held the title of People's Artist of Ukraine, was a laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, and an honorary citizen of Lviv. In 1953, he graduated from the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, having studied under Roman Selskyi, Mykola Fediuk, and Yosyp Bokshai. Following his graduation, he travelled extensively across Ukraine, Central Asia, Siberia, and the Baltic states. Patyk developed a distinctive painting style rooted in bold colour contrasts. He participated in national, all-union, and international art exhibitions from 1956 onwards. Solo exhibitions of his work were held in Lviv (a jubilee exhibition in 2009, and in 2010), Hangzhou (China, 2011), and Lutsk (2021). Patyk's works are held in Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery, the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, and the Korsaks Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art in Lutsk, as well as in other museums and private collections across Ukraine, the USA, Canada, France, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, China, and other countries. In 2024, the Patyk Museum opened in Lviv, housed in a former mansion at 4 Yana Mateika Street.

Object description

This vibrant, colourful landscape was created by the artist in the middle of a spacious field against the backdrop of Olesko Castle and the former Capuchin monastery. With wavy pen strokes, the author fills the field's diverse flora with dynamics, showing tall yellow-green grasses bending in the wind. Above, using brown, blue, and white strokes, the artist depicts windswept clouds. Extending between the sky and the field is a narrow horizontal strip, with the castle complex in the centre and a green line of village homesteads to the right in the distance. To enrich the composition's colour scheme, the artist utilises the greyish tint of the toned paper, which is particularly noticeable in the foreground of the work.

Inscriptions

Signed in pencil lower right: "V. Patyk". On the mat, inscribed in pencil lower left: "Wind", lower right: "Olesko 11.7.80. Patyk".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery