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Lukash and Mavka. After the work by L. Ukrainka "The Forest Song"

ID:
912
Inventory number:
Гр-226 КН-10487
Type:
Graphics
Material:
paper
Techniques:
etching
Dimensions:
35.5x45.5 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:
1967
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:
Waist-length profile depiction of a young man and woman embracing. His head is inclined toward her. Above them hang tree branches. Below the image, on the right, there is the artist's signature and the date.