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By Vlad Lavrov, ArtUkraine.com Correspondent in Kyiv
ArtUkraine.com Information Service, Kyiv, Ukraine, May 14, 2003
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The ceremony of donating more than 300 paintings and other archival items
created by prominent Ukrainian artist, architect, art critique, and
theater and film set designer Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky (1873-1952)
took place on May 12 at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The items from the private collection of Halyna Krychevska Linde, daughter
of the artist, were brought to Ukraine from Venezuela by Oksana Linde
de Ochoa, granddaughter of the artist, with the support of Sigma Bleyzer,
an international investment group and the State Service for Control of
Moving Cultural Treasures over the Border of Ukraine whose head
Oleksandr Fedoruk was in charge of the Krychevsky ceremony.
The event was attended by Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for
Humanitarian Issues, Dmytro Tabachnyk; the Minister of Culture Yuri
Bohutsky; Natasha and Michael Bleyzer of the Sigma Bleyzer Investment
Company; members of parliament, and many art critics and researchers.
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Oksana Linde de Ochoa is reading her speech in Ukrainian assisted by Alex Chapko of Sigma Bleyzer
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Dmytro Tabachnyk in his speech pointed out the symbolic nature of this event
due to the importance of Vasyl H. Krychevsky for Ukrainian culture, noting
that it was Krychevsky who first designed a trident, the small Ukrainian
coat of arms.
Mr. Tabachnyk thanked everyone who took part in making the event
possible, and announced that the Cabinet of Ministers is submitting to the
Rada the draft of a law that will simplify the procedure of returning
cultural valuables to Ukraine.
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Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for Humanitarian Issues Dmytro Tabachnyk speaking at the ceremony
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Among the other speakers at the ceremony were members of parliament
Les' Taniuk and Borys Oliynyk; the researcher of Vasyl H. Krychevsky's life
Valentyna Ruda, and representatives of the Ministry of Culture who all spoke
about the historical importance of today's event focusing on various aspects
of Vasyl Krychevsky's work as an artist as well as on the details of his
biography.
Oksana Linde de Ochoa, who brought the Krychevsky collection on her
first visit ever to Ukraine, thanked Natasha and Michael Bleyzer for their
support in making the donation possible.
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In her speech in Ukrainian Ms. Oksana Linde de Ochoa admitted it was
very difficult to part with the paintings that she grew up with and
expressed the hope that the Ukrainian side will take care of the paintings
just as well as her family did.
Speaking last was Michael Bleyzer, owner of the Sigma Bleyzer Investment
Group, who drew a parallel between the life of Vasyl Krychevsky with its
triumphs and tragedies and the history of Ukraine as a country, noting the
similarities.
Bleyzer called on the audience not to forget Ukraine's past and to do
everything possible to ensure that the Vasyl H. Krychevsky legacy is
preserved and studied, beginning from the school-level.
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Natasha Bleyzer, Michael Bleyzer, and Oksana Linde de Ochoa
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Signing the act of donation by Oksana Linde de Ochoa and Oleksandr Fedoruk
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The ceremony was closed by the signing of the act of donation by
Oksana Linde de Ochoa and Oleksandr Fedoruk.
The Krychevsky works in the collection will be exhibited May 12-16,
2003, in Kyiv, Poltava and Kharkiv, after which they will be given to
various musuems in Ukraine according to Vlad Lavrov, correspondent
for www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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The Hut of Artist's Grandfather Hryhoriy Totskyi in Lebedyn, 1946
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The Dnipro by the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, 1947
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M. Shcherbakivsky's House in [the village of] Shpychentsi, 1949
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November, 1949
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