"Women at the Market" from the "Market Before the War" Series

Yaroslava Muzyka

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-V-92
Author: Yaroslava Muzyka
Name: "Women at the Market" from the "Market Before the War" Series
Country: the USSR
Technique: drawing
Material: paper watercolour
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 21.5 x 23.6

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 sketch depicts several female vendors sitting in front of their goods. Two women in the foreground face the viewer, while four vaguely outlined female figures in the background are depicted from behind.

Inscriptions

On the back, at the top left in a triangle, the number "59" is written in pencil. Next is a pencil inscription: "Y. Muzyka. ‘Women at the Market’ from the series ‘Market Before the War’, paper, watercolor, 21.5 x 23.6". Below, in pencil, "drawing 40" is written. In the upper part of the sheet, there are various coloured spots.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

"Women at the Market" from the "Market Before the War" Series

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