Motherhood

Late cubism had a significant influence on the early work of Leopold Levitsky. This can be traced, in particular, to the etchings of the Krakow Cycle (1931–1935). A striking example of such inspirations is the portrait composition "Motherhood", also known as "Mother with Baby" and "Woman with Baby". Using the simplest geometric shapes: triangles, semicircles, circles, ellipses, toroid fragments, etc. - the artist "made" an image of a woman, who holds one baby with a single arm and hugs an older child leaning against her mother. A similar female image is found in the expressionist composition “Street in the City” (1931–1935).

Zhmurko Oksana, Head of Leopold Levitsky Memorial Museum of Art.

From the collection of Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.