At the market

Among the engravings of the Krakow Cycle (1931–1935), marked by the style of expressionism, are the works in which L. Levitsky depicted the life of people in the city: situations on the streets, fairs, while resting. The artist focused the viewer's attention on the characteristic elements of the urban environment of the time: on horseback rides, on trams, on electric poles and lanterns, on pavement streets, on commercial advertising. Such, at first glance, small details are clear touches to portraits of interwar cities and towns of Galicia. It is to this conditional group belongs to the etching "At the Bazaar", which in literature also occurs under the names "At the Fair" and "Bazaar".

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

From the collection of Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.