2-750-520 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

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]