Title

Floral design, Ukraine, 1925, (1928). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Floral design, Ukraine, 1925, (1928). Petrykivka painting, 'work of a peasant woman...from the village of Petrikovka [Petrykivka] (Ukraine, Government of Ekaterinoslav)...In Petrikovka the decorations are not applied immediately to the wall surface, but are painted on paper like wall-paper. These painted pieces of paper ("Rushniki") are then stuck to the wall'. After an original water-colour on paper. Plate CXIX, fig 222, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]

Date

1928

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19G24_372

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,5Mb (5,5Mb) / 18,7in x 9,9in / 5605 x 2961 (300dpi)

Keywords

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