Bookplate

Sofiia Levytska

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-598
Author: Sofiia Levytska
Name: Bookplate
Technique: woodcut
Material: paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 9.1 x 7

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: bookplate (ex libris)
Provenance: Yaroslava Muzyka Fund

Information about author

Author: Sofiia Levytska
Artist's lifetime: 1874–1937
Country: Ukraine, France
Biography: Sofiia Levytska (March 9, 1874, Vykhylivka village, Khmelnytskyi region – September 20, 1937, Paris) was a graphic artist and a representative of the Paris School. The writer Modest Levytskyi was her brother. She attended the art studio of S. Svitoslavskyi in Kyiv. From 1905, she lived and worked in France and graduated from the Paris Academy of Arts. She is known for her paintings and graphic works in Cubism and Post-Impressionism, with the influence of Ukrainian folk art. She painted portraits and landscapes, created decorative projects of fabrics and carpets, and made models for Lyon silk factories. She gained particular skills in woodcuts. She translated the story "Evenings on a Farm Near Dykanka" (1921) by M. Gogol into French and decorated it with woodcuts. She illustrated the poems of Paul Valéry and Guillaume Apollinaire. From 1910, Sofiia Levytska constantly exhibited at the Paris Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne. In 1913, the first individual exhibition of the artist's works took place in the B. Weil Gallery. A severe illness led to the artist's death in 1937. In 1938, the Society of Friends of Sofiia Levytska organised two posthumous exhibitions of the artist's engravings and watercolours in Paris.

Object description

Ex libris.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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