Oleksandr Bohomazov
1880-1930

Attended Kherson Agricultural School 1896-1902 before enrolling at the Kyiv Art School 1902; was expelled in 1905 with his friend Archipenko. Also studied under Svyatoslavsky, then in Moscow under Rerberg and Yuon, before resuming at the Kyiv Art School from 1908 to 1911, when he travelled to Finland. In 1914 showed 88 works at the Kyiv exhibition ‘The Ring’ and wrote his groundbreaking treatise Painting & Elements, analyzing line, form, colour and plane (the manuscript is now in the Museum of Literary Archives in Kyiv). Taught in Armenia 1915, returning to Kyiv in 1917. Involved in Agitprop 1919-21, then taught at the Kyiv Art Academy for the rest of his life. In 1927 embarked on a revolutionary triptych, Sawyers, but died before completing it from the tuberculosis that had plagued him throughout the 1920s.

WORKS FOR SALE BY THIS ARTIST

Back of the Legs
Wanda Monastyrska in front of a New Year Tree
Portrait of the Artist’s Wife
Portrait of the artist’s brother-in-law, Sergei Rudich
Feet
Hands
Hands Gripping a Saw
The Caucasus (Geryusi)
Landscape, Caucasus (undulating composition)
Logs
Portrait of a Young Girl (Wanda Monastyrska)
Self-Portrait
By the Riverbank
Forms in a circle
Construction of the Rhythm of Forms (portrait of the artist’s wife)
Interior with a chair
Violinist
Composition with a triangle
Interior with a Lamp
Kreshchatik Passers-by

RECENTLY SOLD WORKS BY THIS ARTIST

Rolling the Logs
Portrait of Wanda Monastyrska
Experimental Still Life
Landscape, Locomotive
Bouquet
Wanda in Profile
Portrait of the Artist’s Daughter, Yaroslava
Sawyer from behind
City Landscape
Bridge, Moscow
Absract composition
Absract composition
The Artist’s wife sleeping
Forest, Boyarka
Locomotive
Female Portrait (The Artist’s wife)
Woman reading
Tramway, L’vovskaya Street, Kiev
Kreshchatik
Portrait of the Artists daughter
Seated woman reading (Wanda)
Armenian Woman
Landscape, Caucasus
Memories of the Caucasus
The Artist’s Daughter Playing Diabolo
Wanda in an armchair
Still life with a carafe and a glass on a mirror
Portrait of the Artist’s Daughter, Yaroslava
Dacha, Boyarka
Locomotive
Forest, Boyarka
Kreshchatik
Wanda Looking Over Her Shoulder
Dacha
Wanda reading
Self Portrait
Yaroslava playing diablo