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Sheet No. 4 from the "Siberian Flowers" Series

Yaroslava Muzyka

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ID: ФМз-Г-V-135
Author: Yaroslava Muzyka
Name: Sheet No. 4 from the "Siberian Flowers" Series
Country: the USSR
Technique: drawing
Material: paper coloured pencil watercolour
Dimensions: 20 x 14.5 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: still life
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

Yaroslava Muzyka created the "Siberian Flowers" series during her exile in Siberia from 1949 to 1955. The floral arrangement covers the entire sheet. The picture shows a brown pot with a lush pyrola bush and flowers of the Siberian lilies of the valley.

Inscriptions

On the front, to the right of the picture, there is a pencil inscription by the author: "Pyrola. Siberian Lily of the Valley". At the bottom, along the edge of the sheet, is the author's signature in pencil: "Muzyka". On the reverse, at the bottom right, in pencil: "No. 44". At the bottom left is a sketch of a leaf.

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Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

Sheet No. 4 from the "Siberian Flowers" Series

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