Three Seated Figures

Yaroslava Muzyka

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-I-124
Author: Yaroslava Muzyka
Name: Three Seated Figures
Date of creation: 1930s
Country: the USSR
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil watercolour
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 19.4 x 19

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: genre art nude 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 colour composition on tinted paper is enclosed in a square frame. The drawing shows three female figures seated in different positions on the grass and ground against a natural background. The woman in the foreground is wearing blue trousers and a white shirt, with a green jug beside her. She is surrounded by two naked female figures, one of whom (on the left) wears a red cap on her head. All three women are in a state of deep contemplation. In the background is a green bush with a horse or cow grazing nearby.

Inscriptions

Under the image in the centre with a pencil: "?". On the back, at the top, in pencil, in a triangle, is the number "194". Then there is an inscription in pencil: "Y. Muzyka. Three seated figures; paper, pencil, watercolour; 19.4 x 19/24 x 24.6".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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