Sonia Lewitska | |
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.jpg) Sonia Lewitzka | |
| Born | (1880-03-09)March 9, 1880 |
| Died | September 20, 1937(1937-09-20) (aged 57) |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Known for | Painter |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism |
Sonia Lewitska (Polish:Zofia Lewicka,Ukrainian:Cофія Пилипівна Левицька; born 9 March 1880 inVykhylivka,Russian Empire, now Ukraine;[1] died 20 September 1937 in Paris)[2] was aUkrainian-born French painter andprintmaker.
Sonia Lewitska was aPost-Impressionist painter, printmaker and illustrator of Ukrainian origin, sister of Ukrainian writer and diplomat Modest Pylypovych Levytskyi (1866, Vilkhivtsi (Вільхівці Чемеровецького району), Podillia,Ukraine -Lutsk,Ukraine). Her father was an inspector of the public schools of the Podillya province. He was a friend ofVolodymyr Antonovych andTadej Rylskyj, he was actively interested in social and cultural work. Her childhood was inKyiv and Vilkhivtsi. Her mother Modesta Byshovska (Biszowska) came from the Leszczyńskis (Leshchinskys). Her family was a highly educated and democratic, they spoke Ukrainian, well-fluent in German, French, Polish. Sonia graduated from Art School inZhytomyr. In that town, at the age of 19, she got married Yustyn Manylovskyi, a local doctor, but he abused alcohol. After Art School she ran away from her husband, went to her parents in Vilkhivtsi, left her daughter Olga who was born with mental problems, and began to study Art withSerhiy Svetoslavsky in Kyiv. S.Svetoslavsky advised her to go to Paris and Sofia moved to Paris in 1905 to study painting.
Sonia Lewitska engaged in a refined art without losing what a poet calledthe gift of childhood. Independent, she eschewed all art theory and only investigated the best means of translating her own interior vision into art. Often inspired by Slavic folklore. Lewitska was another early member of the Parisian group. In 1905 she settles in Paris and continued her studies withJean Marchand, who later became her husband. Beginning as acubist andfauvist, she moved into aPost-Impressionist style and became known for her illustrations of limited edition books.
She exhibited at theSalon d'Automne (1910–1913, 1919–1925, 1927–1934), theSalon des Indépendants (1910–1914, 1920–1922),[3] theSection d'Or,[4] theSalon des Tuileries (1929, 1932, 1933), the Paris galleries and at the International exhibitions.
In 1933 she took part inSalon de Echanges. At the same time, in accompany with her friendHenriette Tirman, she helpsAndré Fau and Francis Thieck[5] in room decoration suggesting services of painters from her closest circle:Raoul Dufy,André Lhote,André Hellé andJean Marchand. Thereby she supported her friends in tough times of economic crisis in the country.[6]
In 1937, Henriette Tirman with friends creates in her house theSociety of Friends Sonia Lewitska, which organized in 1938 two retrospective exhibitions of the artist in theGallery Sagot – Le Garrec.[7][8]
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