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Mavka under the Tree. Illustration for Lesia Ukrainka’s work "The Forest Song"

ID:
887
Inventory number:
Гр-201 КН-10454
Type:
Graphics
Material:
paper
Techniques:
linocut
Dimensions:
18x24.5 cm
Author:
Nadiia Lopukhova

Nadiia Yosypivna Lopukhova was a Ukrainian graphic artist. Born on March 25, 1928 in the village of Berezivka (now the district center of Brusylov, Zhytomyr region), she graduated from the Kyiv Art Institute (1954), where her teachers were V. Kasiian, I. Pleshchynskyi, and K. Zaruba. She worked in the field of easel and book graphics and participated in republic (since 1959), all-Union (since 1960), and foreign (since 1957) exhibitions. She was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1960). Lopukhova's main works include illustrations for the fairy tale "Kyslytsia" by O. Ivanenko (1962), the series of lithographs "Women's Fate in the Works of T. G. Shevchenko" (1964), "The Sorrow of War", "1941", "Return" (1965), a cycle of etchings based on Lesya Ukrainka's drama extravaganza "Forest Song" (1967), and illustrations for the Ukrainian folk tale "Oi" (1968). Lopukhova lived and worked in Kyiv. She died in 2014.

Date of creation:
1970
Preservation:
complete preservation
Location:
unknown
Provenance:
Transferred by the Directorate of Art Exhibitions of the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR. Act No. 2561 dated 07/03/1981.
Date of record to the inventory book:
25.09.1981
Item description from the inventory book:
At the foot of a mighty, spreading tree, her head sadly bowed, a slender girl sits in a light long dress with long loose black hair. At the bottom right, under the image, - the inscription: N. Lopukhova 1970. 1/10