*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING *** * TITLE: "Landscape" * ARTISTS: Dontsov Matvey Alekseevich * SIZE: 48x38 cm/'18.89x14.96 inches' * MEDIUM: oil, canvas * HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
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About the artist: Ukrainian Soviet painter. Matvey Alekseevich Dontsov was born on November 26, 1877 in the city of Zolotonosha, Poltava province (now Cherkasy region) into a peasant family. At the age of one, he was left without a father. He graduated from the 6th grade of the school. He received his first drawing lessons from icon painters. In 1906, for attending secret meetings and distributing proclamations, Matvey Dontsov was arrested and spent a year and a half in prison. In the spring of 1908 he came to work in Kiev. During a visit to an art exhibition, he met with the famous artist and teacher Vladimir Karlovich Menk. With his assistance, he entered the landscape workshop of the Kiev Art College, which he graduated in 1913. In 1922, Dontsov M.A. moved to Poltava. He worked as a school teacher, headed the art studio at the Palace of Pioneers. Member of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR. Matvey Alekseevich DontsovWorked in the field of easel painting. Master of landscape and still life. Since 1927 - a participant in republican and all-Union art exhibitions. The artist’s personal exhibition was held in 1957, dedicated to the 80th birthday of Matvey Alekseevich. For many years of creative friendship, Dontsova has been associated with Katerina Vasilievna Belokur. Since 1948 he lived in the city of Irpin near Kiev, where he died on June 24, 1974. Works of M.A. Dontsova is represented in art museums in Kiev, Kharkov, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Nikolaev, Transcarpathian and Yagotinsky art galleries, the Irpen Museum of Local History, numerous private collections. He presented many works to folk museums and schools of the Poltava, Cherkasy and Kiev regions.
