Hutsul Madonna (triptych)
Kazimierz Sichulski
Basic information
- ID
- Ж-2731а,б,в
- Author
- Kazimierz Sichulski
- Name
- Hutsul Madonna (triptych)
- Date of creation
- 1914
- Technique
- tempera painting
- Material
- paper on cardboard
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 150.2 x 112.5
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- religious painting
- Plot
- Madonna. Mary with the Christ-child
- Provenance
- Collection of Lviv City Gallery
- Exposition
- Lozinski Palace
Information about author
Object description
a) A sketch for the mosaics. Mary sitting with a child is depicted on a golden background. She is wearing a Hutsul dress and a headscarf. There is a halo around her head. Mary holds the hands of a child with a halo, who is standing in front of her wearing a Hutsul keptar (a short sleeveless fur coat) and a shirt with a red belt.
b) A Hutsul girl with a cross. A girl with a halo around her head holding a cross is depicted on her knees. She leaned over a flower stalk (bell-flowers). There are decorative yellow wavy stripes with flowers at the bottom of the painting.
c) A Hutsul girl with utensils. This is a stylized image of a girl in Hutsul clothes with a pot in her hands. There is a halo around her head. There is an image of a swastika on a blue square against a golden background among the decorative ornaments.
Inscriptions
a) On the left there is an inscription "МР/хх/ОФМ" (in capital letters), on the right – "ОУ/хх/ОФГ" (in capital letters). At the bottom right there is an author's inscription "Sichulski PINX". b) At the bottom left there is an author's inscription "1914".
