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Oleksandr Khrapachov
"The Lavra. Evening Bells"

2025

$2,100
£1,585.45
€1,855.65
CA$2,984.10
A$3,035.11
CHF 1,735.53
MX$36,712.19
NOK 20,334.61
SEK 20,329.73
DKK 13,872.06

About the Item

# The Lavra. Evening Bells. Oleksandr Khrapachov Oil on canvas 40×60 cm 2025 --- There are places where time takes on a different density. Where every stone remembers a prayer, and the air is steeped in centuries of silence and the ringing of bells. The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra is just such a place — and the evening, when daylight gradually yields to the sky and the soul involuntarily slows its pace, is just such a moment. The artist Oleksandr Khrapachov has captured this moment. On the canvas is a fragment of the roof, the silhouette of the bell tower, and beyond it — that very view of the Far Caves, where hermits have journeyed for centuries to close the door between themselves and the world. No theatrics, no grandstanding. Only what an attentive eye sees and a heart open to contemplation feels. Academic precision of form is combined here with an impressionistic sensitivity to light — Khrapachov’s signature style, honed over years of plein air work. The paint falls just as the evening sun falls on the golden domes: not evenly, but truthfully. The work is included in the artist’s personal catalogue (Khrapachov, O.M. Painting. Plein Air. — Kyiv: Sofia-A, 2026) and was featured in his solo exhibition in 2026 — a sign of the artist’s own recognition of the work as one of the key pieces in his oeuvre. --- To acquire this painting is to invite into your space not merely a landscape, but a prayerful stillness, a living memory and a light that never fades.
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    2025
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 15.75 in (40 cm)Width: 23.63 in (60 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Edinburgh, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1987218331822

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