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Woman Standing

Yaroslava Muzyka

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Basic information
ID
ФМз-Г-V-106
Author
Yaroslava Muzyka
Name
Woman Standing
Country
the USSR
Technique
drawing
Material
paper pencil
Dimensions (height x width, cm)
29.4 x 23.1
Additionally
Type
graphic art
Genre
portraiture
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 work is a full-length sketch of a woman standing barefoot in traditional Ukrainian costume.
Inscriptions
The sheet is on the letterhead of the editorial office of the magazine "Likarskyi Visnyk" ("Doctors' Bulletin") (24 Charnetskoho Street, Lviv), as evidenced by the printed text in the lower right-hand corner on the back of the drawing. There is also a pencil inscription inside a triangle in the upper left corner with the number "76". Next is a pencil inscription: "Y. Muzyka. 'A woman standing'; paper, pencil, 29.4 x 23.1 cm".
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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