Oksana. Sketch (4)

Taras Shevchenko. Oksana. After the motive of the "Blind woman" poem. Sketch.
[1841, end – 1842, the first half. St. Petersburg].
Paper, red pencil. 18,9 × 15,7 cm.
Taras Shevchenko National Museum, № g – 670.

Contents recreated scenes and character vibrant picture of great emotional stress close to another picture on the motives of the "Blind woman" poem.

Dated according to the time of writing drama "Blind beauty" (December 1841) and the "Blind woman" poem (first half 1842).

Scientific description provided in 1900 [Catalog of V. Tarnowski's Museum of Ukrainian antiquity / arranged by B.D. Grinchenko. – Chernigov, 1900. – T. 2. – p. 192. – № 424]. In the work by O.P. Novitsky [Ol Novitsky. Taras Shevchenko as a painter. – Lviv, Moscow, 1914. – p. 71. – № 501] there were descriptive: "A naked woman sitting behind hangings". There's also the first time suggested that the scene related to "Blind woman" poem.

First time reproduced in 1932 by A.P. Novitsky [T. Shevchenko Complete Works. – [Kharkiv, 1932. – T. 8]. – Tab. 139. – № 298].

Storage areas: V.V. Tarnowski's collection; from 1899 – V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities, 1925 – Chernihiv Historical Museum, 1933 – Gallery of pictures by T.H. Shevchenko (Kharkiv), from 1948 – State Museum of T.H. Shevchenko (Kyiv).

O.G. Vartanova, I.M. Verykivska

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – K.: ed. of Acad. Sci. of UkrSSR, 1961, t. 7, bk. 2, № 273 (image); T.H. Shevchenko Complete Works in 12 volumes. – K.: Naukova Dumka, 2003, v. 7, p. 443 (notes).