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Oleksandr Khrapachov
"Crimea. Kolchugino. A Tatar village"

2013

$3,500
£2,645.39
€3,094.29
CA$4,969.71
A$5,055.92
CHF 2,905.20
MX$60,797.79
NOK 33,917.73
SEK 34,120.78
DKK 23,131.46

About the Item

Crimea. Kolchugino. A Tatar village. Oleksandr Khrapachov Oil on canvas 80×100 cm 2013 --- Crimea is a land where civilisations did not replace one another, but layered upon one another like geological strata. The Greeks, the Scythians, the Genoese, the Ottomans, the Crimean Tatars — each has left their invisible mark on these stones, in this air, in this light. The artist Oleksandr Khrapachov came here with his brush and canvas — and painted what he saw. Without embellishment, without nostalgic idealisation. With respect for the place. Before us lies the outskirts of Kolchugino, a few kilometres from the sea. The steppe here has not yet given way to the coast: the air is dry, the grass scorched by the sun, the horizon stretches far and wide. Yet there is already a sense of the sea — in the diffused light, in that distinctive Crimean haze that makes the distance bluish and almost unreal. The Tatar town blends into the landscape so naturally, as if it had grown from this very earth — for that is indeed the case. The large format – 80×100 cm – lends a sense of air and space. The painting is not simply hung on the wall; it opens a window in the wall: onto the steppe, onto the warmth, onto a time when this corner of the earth still lived to its familiar, millennia-old rhythm. Painted from life en plein air in 2013, this work now takes on a special dimension — both documentary and human. It is not merely a landscape. It is a testimony. The artist’s gaze, captured before the world changed. --- To acquire this painting is to preserve in your home a living memory of the land, its beauty, its air and its silent dignity.
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    2013
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 31.5 in (80 cm)Width: 39.38 in (100 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Edinburgh, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1987218331852

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