GALINA MAKOWSKAJA (1915 - 1992) Francesca da Rimini

part of a triptych, possibly a set design for the ballet signed with monogram in Cyrillic and dated ‘GM 60-62’ (lower right); signed, inscribed, located in Cyrillic and dated ‘Francesca da Rimini/ seredina triptikha/Galina Makowskaja 1960/ Tashkent’, ownership stamp of Igor Dichenko collection (on the reverse) gouache on paper laid on board 46.5 x 43 cm Executed in 1960. PROVENANCE: Collection of Igor Dichenko (Ihor Dychenko) (1946–2015), Soviet and Ukrainian collector, art historian, and painter; one of the ideologists of the Ukrainian avant-garde, Kyiv. Private collection, Europe. Galina Makowskaja was a Ukrainian graphic artist and theatre designer. Born in Kyiv, she studied at the Kyiv Art and Industrial School and later at the Moscow Institute of Silicates and Building Materials. From the 1930s, she worked as a theatre artist in Tashkent and later in Kyiv, producing stage designs, posters, illustrations and graphic works. She participated in Ukrainian and Soviet art exhibitions from 1934 and held solo exhibitions in Tashkent and Kyiv. She became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR in 1962. In many works from her series, Makowskaja employed the triptych format, placing the central event or figure in the middle and related events.