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In a United Family.

ID:
724
Inventory number:
Гр-38 КН-2189
Type:
Graphics
Material:
paper
Techniques:
coloured linocut
Dimensions:
35x44 cm
Author:
Yevheniia Riabova

Yevheniia Dmytrivna Riabova was a Ukrainian artist and a member of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine from 1958. She was born on December 31, 1923 in the city of Izhevsk (now Russia). In 1950, she graduated from the Kharkiv Art Institute. Her teachers were Yosyp Daits, Hryhorii Bondarenko, and Vasyl Myronenko. She worked in the field of book illustration, book design, and easel graphics. Among her works are "Boryslav Oil Fields" (1952) and illustrations for the story "School" by Arkady Gaidar, for the novel "We Only Dream of Peace" by Vadym Sobko, for the story "Honor" by Grigory Medinsky, for the poem "Blind" by Taras Shevchenko, and for the poem "Both Golden and Dear" by Taras Shevchenko. She participated in art exhibitions. Some of her works are kept in museums of Ukraine.

Preservation:
complete preservation
Location:
unknown
Provenance:
Print from an album purchased under invoice No. 8593 dated 12/22/1978. Act No. 2282 dated 09/27/1979.
Date of record to the inventory book:
17.07.1980
Item description from the inventory book:
A multi-figure composition. In the foreground there are two figures—a Russian and a Ukrainian—shaking hands. Both wear a red bow on their clothing. To their right there are the figures of a woman in a red headscarf and a boy in a papakha (a tall fur hat); behind them there are representatives of the national republics. In the background the figure of an orator rises. To the right and left there are red banners and placards. Under the image, on the left — "In a United Family"; on the right — Riabova.