Oil by Michael Kmit
USD 7,985.00
“Aquarium – Paradise Fishes”
SOLD Oil on board dated 1956 by Michael Kmit.
Michael Kmit was born in 1910 in Ukraine, arriving in Sydney in 1950, dying there in 1981. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and taught painting in Lvov in Poland and Landeck in Austria, he also worked in Italy, Paris & Vienna, before arriving in Australia. His work combining Byzantine iconography with peasant craft, soon brought him into prominence. He was awarded the Blake Prize in 1953 and the Sulman Prize in 1957.
His work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
The work has been professionally cleaned.