Embroideress. Sketch

Yaroslava Muzyka

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-V-141
Author: Yaroslava Muzyka
Name: Embroideress. Sketch
Country: the USSR
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil charcoal
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 30.3 x 22.3

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 drawing shows a young woman embroidering on a stool by a window. She is wearing a white blouse and a dark skirt, and her hair is tied up. The large canvas she is working on lies on her lap. On the part of the canvas hanging down, one can see the finished embroidery – a hammer and sickle in a round frame (the state emblem of the Soviet Union). On the back is a sketch of the bust of an old, grey-haired woman, depicted in a slight half-turn. Several lines cross the sketch.

Inscriptions

On the reverse, the number "115" is written in pencil in a triangle at the top right. Next is an inscription in pencil: "Y. Muzyka. An embroideress. Sketch; paper, pencil, charcoal, 30.3 х 22.3". At the bottom of the sheet is a pencil inscription: "The embroidery project. Lost".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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