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Crimea. Uiutne

Margit Selska

Basic information

ID: Ж-5868
Author: Margit Selska
Name: Crimea. Uiutne
Date of creation: 1962
Country: Ukraine
Culture: Eastern Europe
Technique: oil painting
Material: cardboard oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 49.5 x 70

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: landscape
Provenance: Gifted by Roman Selskyi, 1983
Exposition: Lozinski Palace

Information about author

Author: Margit Selska
Artist's lifetime: 1900–1980
Biography: Margit Selska (Reich) (1900, Kolomyia – 1980, Lviv). In 1918, the artist entered the private Free Academy of Art in Lviv, where she studied under the guidance of Feliks Wygrzywalski. In 1921, Margit Reich graduated from the State Industrial School in Lviv. Between 1921 and 1922, she studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow with Wojciech Weiss and Wladyslaw Jarocki. From 1922 to 1923 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien). In 1924, the artist moved to Paris, where she frequented exhibitions of modernists and became interested in cinema and photography. In Paris, she attended the Académie Moderne, the art school founded by Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant. In 1926, the artist took part in the exhibition of the Salon des Indépendants (Society of Independent Artists) in Paris, and the following year her first personal exhibition took place in Lviv. She was a member of the art association "Artes" (1929–1935), the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (1931–1939), the New Generation (1932–1935) and the Lviv Trade Union of Plastic Artists (1932–1939). During the Holocaust, Margit Selska was in the Yaniv concentration camp, from which she managed to escape to Krakow with the help of her friends. In 1943, the Selski couple returned to Lviv. In 1978, the artist presented her works at an exhibition in the Lviv Art Gallery for the first time after the war. Margit Selska is the author of numerous portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. Post-Impressionism, Cubism and Constructivism greatly influenced the artist's work. Her works have a unique colouristic and compositional solution, particularly her early work Hel (1932), Woman with a Cat (1960s), Crimea. Uiutne Village (1962), Carpathian Landscape (1965), Near the Sea (1964), Grape Harvest (1968), Old Ash Tree (1976) and others.

Object description

In the painting "Crimea. Uiutne" Margit Selska creates an interesting colour composition of several coloured planes: red, green, bluish-purple, yellow and brown tones. In the centre of the composition is a fortress with a rocky mountain background, and in front of the fortress are several trees and small structures. Structures, mountains, trees, fortress walls are depicted without shadows and half-shadows, but in fact, they are viewed through colour contrasts.

Inscriptions

In the bottom right there is author's signature in black: "Selska"

Crimea. Uiutne

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