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Gossiping Women

Yaroslava Muzyka

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-IV-116
Author: Yaroslava Muzyka
Name: Gossiping Women
Date of creation: 1958
Country: the USSR
Technique: linocut
Material: paper
Dimensions: 19.5 x 27 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: genre art
Provenance: Yaroslava Muzyka Fund

Information about author

Author: Yaroslava Muzyka
Artist's lifetime: 1894–1973
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ukrainian SSR, now Ukraine
Biography: Yaroslava Muzyka (Stefanovych) was born in Zaliztsi in Ternopil region on January 10, 1894. She died on November 24, 1973, in Lviv. She was an artist of diverse preferences and talent. She turned to graphic art – linocuts, woodcuts, drypoint, monotype; painting – oil, tempera, gouache, encaustic; mosaic and enamel, on glass, grattage on gold or silver foil, batik, embossing on leather, embossing on metal. She studied drawing and painting at Leonard Podhorodecki Free Academy of Fine Arts in Lviv and André Lhote Academy in Paris. In 1928, she trained as an art restorer at the Central State Restoration Workshop of Ihor Grabar in Moscow. She also worked at the National Museum in the restoration workshop. Yaroslava Muzyka was one of the founders of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (AIUA), a Ukrainian public art organization that operated in Lviv from 1931–1939. In 1937, the artist learned the difficult technique of burning enamel objects by attending Mariia Dolnytska classes in Lviv. In addition, she studied on her own using French and German enamelling manuals. The artist worked in the technique of bulk (scenic, painted) and cloisonne enamel. Her favourite subjects in the enamel works were Hutsul demonology, pagan mythology, beliefs of ancient Slavs, the works by Taras Shevchenko, images of animals, and female portraits.

Object description

The image depicts a black-and-white print in the centre of the sheet. Three women are portrayed. An obese woman sitting on the left is turned three-quarters to the viewer’s right, holding her hands on her lap. She wears a scarf from under which her fringe is seen. At the right is a woman wearing a speckled headscarf; she leans to the left and props up her chin with her left hand. In the foreground is shown a woman with a hair bun. She is turned in profile to the left, and her right hand is raised. There is a wooden fence behind the women.

Inscriptions

At the bottom left is an author's inscription in pencil: "Gossip Girls", at the right is the date: "58". On the reverse side at the top right is written in pencil: "Y. Muzyka." On the backing paper along the upper edge is written in pencil: "Y. Muzyka ‘Gossiping Women’ 1958, No. 362".

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Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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