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Landscape of Vyshkiv

Margit Selska (Reich)

Basic information

ID: Ж-5883
Author: Margit Selska (Reich)
Name: Landscape of Vyshkiv
Date of creation: 1979
Country: Ukraine
Culture: Eastern Europe
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions: 40.3 x 50 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: landscape
Provenance: Gifted by Roman Selskyi, 1983
Exposition: Lozinski Palace

Information about author

Author: Margit Selska (Reich)
Author in the original: Margit Sielska (Reich)
Artist's lifetime: 1900–1980
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ukrainian SSR, now Ukraine
Biography: Margit Selska (Reich) (1900, Kolomyia – 1980, Lviv) was a Ukrainian artist, the wife of Roman Selskyi. She was born in Kolomyia to the family of engineer Isaac Reich. She attended the private Free Academy of Arts of Leonard Podhorodecki in Lviv (1918); her teacher was Feliks Wygrzywalski. In 1921, Margit Selska graduated from the State Industrial School in Lviv, then studied painting at the Krakow Academy of Arts (1921–1922) under Wojciech Weiss and Wladyslaw Jarocki, and from 1922 to 1923 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1924, the artist moved to Paris, where she visited exhibitions of modern artists, became interested in cinema and photography, and studied at the Académie Moderne, a private art school of Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant. The artist participated in the Salon des Indépendants (Paris, 1926). The following year she had her first solo exhibition in Lviv. She was a member of the artistic association "Artes" (1929–1935) and the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (1931–1939), participated in the activities of the "New Generation" (1932–1935) and the Lviv Professional Union of Plastic Artists (LZZAP, 1932–1939). During the Holocaust, Margit Selska was imprisoned in the Yaniv concentration camp, from which she managed to escape to Krakow with the help of friends. In 1943, the Selski couple returned to Lviv. In 1978, for the first time after the war, the artist presented her works in an exhibition at the Lviv Art Gallery. Margit Selska authorises numerous portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. Post-Impressionism, Cubism and Constructivism strongly influenced her oeuvre. Her works are characterised by a particular colouristic and compositional solution, especially her early works Hel (1932), Woman with a Cat (1960s), Crimea. Uiutne Village (1962), Carpathian Landscape (1965), Near the Sea (1964), Grape Harvest (1968), Old Ash Tree (1976), etc.

Object description

The foreground of the horizontal composition "Landscape from Vyshkiv" on the right-hand side shows a part of a winding mountain river in greyish-green tones. On the left is a yellow-greenish hill at the foot of which a fence (a cut-off trunk used for fencing) is depicted horizontally, with two trees on the left, a row of brown haystacks behind the fence, and a row of houses with light grey and red roofs above on the hill. Behind the houses unfolds a band of greyish-blue mountains. Along the upper edge of the composition, the sky is grey with light grey clouds. This landscape by Margit Selska creates the impression of an unreal vision, through the intensified contrast of yellow-grey, grey-red tones, further emphasized by the brown-black contour lines.

Inscriptions

In the bottom left there is author's signature in brown: "Selska M."

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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