Mykola Shelyuto
1906–1984 Honoured Figure of Arts of Ukraine
He went to the sea at six every morning. While the city slept, he was already painting. Fifty years: Odesa, Crimea, the Dnipro. Over a thousand works, every one signed — authorship confirmed by the artist's son.
Between 1925 and 1931 he studied at the Odesa Art Institute under the notable painter Pavlo Volokidin, one of the founders of the Odesa school of painting. In the 1950s, in Gurzuf and Yalta on the Crimean shore, he painted large canvases and monumental landscapes; this is where Shelyuto found his defining image.
Volodymyr Lytvynenko, also represented in this collection, was among his pupils.
More than 80 of his works are held in Ukrainian museums — Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Alushta all preserve Shelyuto's canvases. In 2006, Odesa marked the 100th anniversary of his birth. The collection holds more than 40 original works.
Works in the Collection
- Odesa. The Coast, 1969
- On the Boulevard, 1949
- On the Beach, 1954
- At the Pier in Yalta, 1954
- Still Life at the Dacha, 1977
- Above the Dnipro, 1953
- Sedniv in Winter, 1975
- Autumn. Empty Beach, 1974
- Crimean Study, 1949
- Sanatorium. Study, 1950
- On the Threshing Floor, 1948
- Crimea. Spring, 1954
- Forest Edge, 1940
- Odesa. Shores, 1960
- Sea. Odesa, 1941
- In the Port. Study, 1960
- Fields, 1952
- Fishermen, 1957
- Boats on the Shore, 1940
- Autumn Study, 1946
- Outskirts of the Village, 1971
- Sedniv in Winter, 1975
- Sedniv. In Winter, 1978
- Huts in Winter, 1975
- The Grain is Ripe. Sketch for a Painting, 1948
- Veranda at the Dacha, 1966
- Old Shores. Odesa, 1951
- In Autumn, 1940
- In Dyukivsky Park, 1948
- Twilight, 1953
- Gurzuf. Apple Tree, 1955
- Boathouse. Study, 1973
- Figure in the Open Air, 1953
- Crimea. Shores, 1955
- Museum Courtyard, 1947
- Woman in Sunlight. Study for a Painting, 1954
- Gate, 1976
- House with a Tree, 1950
- Apricots in Bloom, 1963
- Study for the Painting 'Dnipro Distances', 1953
- Still Life with Roses, 1979
- Village of Sledy, 1948
- Pine Trees, 1963