Friendly cartoon on Yevhen Malaniuk

Brief description

In a friendly cartoon of the writer, essayist, publicist Yevgeny Malaniuk (1897–1968) as an elegant man dressed in a coat, with a butterfly around his neck, the author emphasizes the book in his hands. Thus S. Gordynsky draws attention to the publication of the collection of poems by E. Malaniuk "The Earth Madonna" in Lviv in 1934. Despite the political involvement of the poet, as evidenced by his first collection, Stiletto or Stylos (1925), S. Gordynsky portrays Y. Malaniuk as a romantic dandy who holds a beautiful muse in his arms. Creating this image, the artist resorted to lines from the intimate lyrics of E. Malaniuk: "Like the Ionian Column / Her snowhite skin turns red, / Hiding the rounding bosom / Her hands and feet resemble lilies ..."

Maria Cymbalista 
Head of Prints and Drawings department
From the collection of Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.