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Woman Doing Needlework

Emanuel Proweller

Basic information

ID: Ж-3704
Author: Emanuel Proweller
Name: Woman Doing Needlework
Date of creation: 1930s
Country: Poland Ukraine
Culture: Eastern Europe
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 66 x 56

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: narrative art
Plot: Woman at work
Provenance: From the Museum of Art and Industry, 1949
Exposition: Lozinski Palace

Information about author

Author: Emanuel Proweller
Artist's lifetime: 1918–1981
Country: Poland, Ukraine, France
Biography: Emanuel Proweller (1918, Lviv – 1981, France) studied at the Lviv Polytechnic University (from 1936). Since 1937, he has been working in the Post-Impressionist style. In 1939, he became friends with artist Henrik Strang (Mark Wlodarski) and together with them first participates in an exhibition in Lviv. In 1941, during the German occupation of Lviv he bought fake documents under the name Anatoliy Vrublevskyi. Emanuel Proweller was mobilised in the Red Army as an artist in 1944. After demobilisation, he married Renaud Liebenman. He left for Warsaw and participated in six exhibitions in Krakow and Warsaw. In 1948, he moved with his wife and daughter to Paris. He was one of the first figurative or "new" abstractionists. Some of his works have common features with the American Pop Art. Geometric abstraction is typical of master's painting.

Object description

Against a kitchen wall of crockery is a young woman seated with her legs thrown over each other. She is dressed in an orange dress and a grey and blue jumper with flowers. Her head is slightly tilted down, her eyes are also lowered, in her hands is the cloth, which she is working with. To the right, a white cup hangs in the background. The painting is stylised, dominated by ochre tones with splashes of blue.

Inscriptions

On the bottom left is the author's signature: "E. Prowel..."

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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