Coin Ukraine 2015 #16 Oleksandr Murashko

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Oleksandr Murashko

The commemorative coin is dedicated to the 140th anniversary of birth of Oleksandr Murashko, a painter, pedagogue and public figure who managed to combine the best achievements of the French Impressionism, elements of Art Nouveau and Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts school, having created a unique artistic style. Being one of the most significant `Europeans` in Ukrainian pictorial art of the time, he had a solid artistic education, dreamed of turning Kyiv into a great art center and of opening the Academy of Arts in it.

Obverse: to the left there is depicted the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the face value 2/ГРИВНІ (2/hryvnias) thereunder, bowl-shaped inscription УКРАЇНА (Ukraine), the issue year – 2015 and the mark of the Mint of the National Bank of Ukraine (below); in the center there is the conventionalized composition: Oleksandr Murashko in the process of painting `The Annunciation` in his workroom.

Reverse: Oleksandr Murashko is depicted beside the easel in the workroom. The painter is holding a palette in his left hand, in his right hand he is holding a brush when painting the `Girl in a Red Hat` picture; to the right there is the inscription: ОЛЕКСАНДР МУРАШКО (Oleksandr Murashko) (bowl-shaped inscription) and the years of birth and death 1875 -/1919.