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Wasyl Kacurovsky Signed Orig. Oil Painting

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Wasyl Kacurovsky Signed Orig. Oil Painting
Offered is a Wasyl Kacurovsky signed original piece of artwork. It is an oil painting on canvas. It is framed with SUV plexiglas. There is a slightly whiter color around the red and green in the corner. --- Artist: Wasyl Kacurovsky - Signature: Kacurovsky in pencil in bottom right corner - Title: untitled - Medium: oil painting on canvas- Sheet size: 18"x19" - Frame: 25x27 - Year: 1970's - Condition: Excellent --- Universal Live has been entrusted by the estate of Wasyl Kacurovsky to offer his personal artwork for public sale. This represents a treasure trove of his personal work as submitted by his nephew, the administrator of his estate. It was his wish and legacy that others should enjoy what he enjoyed. --- Wasyl Kacurovsky (1905-2000) worked in oil paints and mixed media, created sculptures that puzzled and entertained, and painted rocks and baseball caps. His work mixed shapes, textures, colors, and media, and focused particularly on modern art. Born in 1905 in North Dakota, Wasyl and his family shortly returned to Czechoslovakia, where he spent most of his life in Prague. He attended boarding schools as a youth and graduated from the Prague School of Economics in 1930. He remained in Prague during the German occupation, but fled when the war ended and Soviet troops began their takeover. After spending 4 years in refugee camps, he eventually made it to Chicago, where he began experimenting with art, particularly modernism. In 1972 he met several other like-minded Ukrainian artists and opened the Ukrainian Art Institute, where he was the curator. Over the years he created more than 200 oil paintings along with a great many other pieces of work. "His paintings are intellectual and deliberate, yet highly experimental in his use of technique and medium within the boundaries of a canvas". Mr. Kacurovsky passed away in 2000 in Chicago. His works were mainly sold and displayed in art galleries around Chicago.