Female act

Brief description

The drawing is made in small detailed hatching. It belongs to the preparatory acts for a series of A. Arkhipenko’s lithographs published in Berlin in 1921. Despite the fact that the figure represented sitting, in general gives the impression of a certain gravity of the form, it is still characterized by internal dynamism - due to ¾ rotation of the torso, movement of the head and left arm, as well as the gradual increase in the volume of the figure from top to bottom. The conscious lengthening and sharpness of the face shown in the profile contrasts with the plump looseness of the body, which fits into the artist's formal experiments with the female figure in the works of both the Berlin and the previous, Parisian, period.

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