ARTIST: Konstanty Shevchenko (Ukrainian, Polish, 1915 - 1991)
NAME: The Scholars
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Unstretched. Some minor scratches/paint losses. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 24 x 30 inches / 60 x 76 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed
SIGNATURE: lower right
PROVENANCE: Arnot Gallery NY (has gallery stamp on verso)
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Konstantin Szewczenko was born in 1910 in Warsaw. He was a painter who studied in the studio of Felicjan Kowarski and Tadeusz Pruszkowski at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1928-32. He mainly painted easel pictures, genre scenes and portraits. Szewczenko was the creator of the set design at the Rozmaitosci Theater in 1934-35. He collaborated with the publishing house "Atlas" in Lviv, and he published illustrations in "Kurier Poranny". He is the author of portraits of Ignacy Moscicki, Edward Rydz-Smigly, and he created a series entitled: "Polish regional types" and "Semitic types". He has exhibited at home and abroad. His works are in the collection of the Polish Army Museum.