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Execution at Mezhyhirya

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ArtistVasyl Sedliar

MovementBoychukism (Monumentalism)

Year1927

MediumTempera on canvas

LocationNational Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv

A partly destroyed monumental painting; one of the few surviving works of Sedliar, executed in 1937.

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Vasyl Sedliar

1899–1937

Close associate of Boychuk; painter, ceramicist and book artist best known for his complete cycle of illustrations to Shevchenko's 'Kobzar'; executed by the NKVD in 1937.

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Movements

Boychukism (Monumentalism)

1910s–1930s

A Ukrainian monumental-art school founded by Mykhailo Boychuk fusing Byzantine icon tradition, Italian Quattrocento and Ukrainian folk art into a synthetic 'great style'. Annihilated by Stalinism — its leaders executed in 1937 and nearly all works destroyed.

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Executed Renaissance Ukrainian Graphic Art & Book Design

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