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Bookplate of B. M. Tenin

Vasyl Stetsenko

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-603
Author: Vasyl Stetsenko
Name: Bookplate of B. M. Tenin
Date of creation: 1965
Country: the USSR
Technique: woodcut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 14.5 x 10

Additionally

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

Information about author

Author: Vasyl Stetsenko
Artist's lifetime: 1901–1971
Country: Ukraine, the USSR
Biography: Vasyl Stetsenko (December 27, 1901, Kozatske village, Cherkasy region – December 9, 1971, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian soviet graphic artist and member of the Union of soviet Artists of Ukraine. Between 1926 and 1930, he studied at the printing faculty of the Kyiv Art Institute from O. Usachov, V. Kasiian, I. Pleshchynskyi, and S. Nalepinska-Boichuk. He worked in the field of posters and bookplates, book and industrial graphic art, mainly in the xylography technique. Among his works are the series of etchings "The Dnipro River", "Crossing the Danube River", and the woodcut "Monument to Shevchenko in Kyiv". He designed selected works by M. Rylskyi, P. Tychyna, and L. Ukrainka. He participated in republican and foreign exhibitions.

Object description

Bookplate of B. M. Tenin.

Inscriptions

At the bottom left below the image is an inscription in pencil: "V. Stetsenko-65, Kyiv, xylogr."

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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