Auction 52 CLASSIC & CONTEMPORARY ART
06.10.2022
06.10.2022
Lot 12
BOKSHAI Joseph (1891-1975)all works of the author
canvas, oil
95 х 129 cm
Signature and date bottom left
95 х 129 cm
Signature and date bottom left
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+5% Royalties
Bokshai Yosyp (1891-1975) - Ukrainian painter and teacher. Born in Kobyletska Polyana, Transcarpathian region. Author of landscapes, religious compositions, portraits and still lifes. People's Artist of USSR (1963), corresponding member of Academy of Arts of USSR (1958). He studied in Budapest at the Academy of Fine Arts (1910-1914) under I. Revesz. He worked in Uzhgorod (since 1918). Along with A. Erdeli organized the first exhibition of artists of Transcarpathian region (1921), established Uzhgorod Art School (1927), initiator of establishing the Society of leaders in Fine Arts in Pidkarpatska Rus' (1931). He taught at the Uzhgorod School of Applied Arts (1945-1957) and at Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (1951-1957). He lived and worked in Uzhgorod. In 1990, for the outstanding achievements in promoting fine arts of Transcarpathian region, the art museum of Uzhhorod was named after coryphaeus of Transcarpathian school of painting, and since then is being named - Transcarpathian Regional Museum of Art named after Yosyp Bokshay.
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