Friendly cartoon on Bohdan Ihor Antonych. After receiving a literary award

A friendly cartoon of a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909–1937), who was also a close friend of the artist, was made on the occasion of the award of the literary prize of the Lviv Society of Writers and Journalists for his collection of poems “Three Rings”. S. Gordynsky portrays a Ukrainian modernist poet surrounded by the mystical aura of blue - against the sky, among the celestial luminaries that served as the images of Antonych's modernist and visionary poetry: "Oh anguish joyful and great, / ogival words going to heaven! / This moon - a young musician / tunes  garden like a violin. / Effusive dream yet faciful! / Blessed in the nightlessness the way ... »

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