Female act

Brief description

The image of a woman was perhaps the most important in A. Arkhipenko's work. The echoes of innovative formal searches for this image in the sculptural decision of the female figure can be observed in the drawings, in particular, of the Berlin period of the artist. The past few years, A. Arkhipenko spent in Paris, and since then, in his work, a characteristic Gothic elongation of figures appeared, which is also inherent in this figure. Still, despite the conditional decision on the woman's face and the outline character of the work in general, the artist created a lively, even somewhat emotionally-melancholy image of the model.

Maria Cymbalista
Head of the graphics department
From the collection of the National Museum in Lviv named after Andrey Sheptytsky