Fisherman

Fisherman belongs to a series of folklore-themed gouache paintings. The work was first exhibited at the Ukrainian Plastics Exhibition, organized in Lviv in the fall of 1931 by the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (ANUM). M. Butovich in a characteristic dynamic manner represents the process of fishing: the figure of a fisherman in a boat is slipping out, "twists" from us alike a fish in his hands. At the same time, thanks to the plane geometric background, the work acquires a constructive poster-like solution and naturally fits into the contemporary modernist quest of the artist.

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