UKRAINIANS IN MONTMARTRE

The inter-museum exhibition “Ukrainians in Montmartre” showcases artworks by 20th-century Ukrainian emigrant artists who were part of the École de Paris and lived in the French capital.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Paris was the center of European art. At that time, a group of Ukrainian artists formed “Un Groupe Ukrainien,” which later became part of the international community of artists known as École de Paris.

“The immigrant artists who arrived often settled and worked in Montparnasse and Montmartre, with its cozy cafes, workshops, and studios,” says Anna Leksina, an art historian and curator of the exhibition. “In 1930, one of the first exhibitions of the Ukrainian group artists took place in Montmartre, in the Studio 28 gallery”.

The exhibition features works by Mykhailo Andriienko (Mykhailo Andriienko-Nechytailo/Michel Andrienko), Mykola Hlushchenko, Oleksa Hryshchenko, Mykola Krychevsky, Sofia Levytska, Vasyl Perebyjnis, and Vasyl Khmeliuk created in the 1920s and 1930s, during the period of formation and prosperity of the École de Paris.

For the first time in many years, the public will be able to see the illustrations of Mykola Hohol’s Evenings on a Khutir near Dykanka, created by Sofia Levytska in 1921 for the French edition, as well as postwar graphic drawings by Mykola Krychevsky, designed for the 1945 French translation of Mykola Hohol’s Taras Bulba.

The exhibition focuses on the late works of Mykola Hlushchenko, Mykola Krychevsky, and Mykhailo Andriienko from the 1950s and 1960s. These are landscapes of Paris, the city that united and inspired the artists.

The “Ukrainians in Montmartre” project features works from the Museum of Ukrainian Diaspora, the National Art Museum of Ukraine, and private collections.

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