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Portrait of Yaroslava Muzyka

Glebus Sainciuc

Basic information

ID: ФМз-Г-V-142
Author: Glebus Sainciuc
Name: Portrait of Yaroslava Muzyka
Date of creation: 1973
Country: the Ukrainian SSR
Technique: drawing
Material: paper ballpoint pen
Dimensions: 30 x 20.5 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: portraiture
Provenance: Yaroslava Muzyka Fund

Information about author

Author: Glebus Sainciuc
Artist's lifetime: 1919–2012
Country: the USSR
Biography: Glebus Sainciuc (19.07.1919–16.10.2012) was a Moldovan portrait painter, national artist of Moldova, and Doctor of Sciences (Honoris Causa) of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences. He is known for collecting papier-mâché masks of writers and cultural and artistic figures. He was born in Chisinau. Glebus Sainciuc graduated from the "B.P. Hasdeu" lyceum. From 1942 to 1944, he studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. In 1947, he graduated from the Illia Repin School of Fine Arts in Chisinau, and in the same year, he was admitted to the Union of Artists of the Republic of Moldova. In 1994, Glebus Sainciuc participated in the Theatre Festival in Avignon, France. The artist's works include paintings, graphic works, caricatures, and masks.

Object description

The work is a bust portrait of the Ukrainian artist Yaroslava Muzyka (1894–1973), painted by the Moldovan artist Glebus Sainciuc in the last year of her life. The laconic portrait subtly conveys the woman's emotional state. Her tired eyes look out at the viewer, her hair is combed back, and the shoulder line and collar of her dress are outlined.

Inscriptions

Below the image on the right is a diagonal gift inscription, date, and autograph of the artist. On the reverse, the number "118" is written in pencil in a triangle at the top left. Next is an inscription in pencil: "G. Sainciuc. Portrait of Y. Muzyka; paper, ballpoint pen, 30 х 20.5/1749".

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