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The Ib Jorgensen Collection 11
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November 2014
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Anna Kostenko (20th/21st Century)
Portrait of a Girl
Oil on canvas, 30 x 30cm (11.8 x 11.8”)
Signed with monogram; also signed, inscribed and dated 2006 verso
Anna Kostenko was born in 1975 in the city of Kiev in The Ukraine,
Poland. Since 1991 she has travelled extensively and has exhibited in
many countries including Ireland, Poland, France, Germany and Spain.
Anna’s delight in rich, translucent colours is harnessed to voice witness
to her openness to and respect for the diversity of cultures which she has
encountered in her extensive travels. Just as the men who made Gothic
stained glass were itinerant craftsmen travelling from cathedral to ca-
thedral and thus disseminating the secrets of their art, so Anna gathers
impressions of far-flung countries and their peoples and recreates them
using the strong colours of those regions.
€800 - 1,200