Figurine “Figure Skater-Sportswoman”

Technique: Porcelain, painting, gilding.

Figurine “Figure Skater-Sportswoman”. LFZ, USSR. Sculptor E. A. Gendelman, painter E. N. Lupanova. 1950s–1960s.  Porcelain, painting, gilding. Marks: in blue “LFZ”, “1s”. The figurine is published in the book “Lomonosov Porcelain Factory in Leningrad 1944-2004”, Vol. 1, author N. S. Petrova, “Global View” publishing house, St. Petersburg, 2007, p. 394. Efim Aronovich Gedelman – Soviet sculptor. He began working at the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory in Leningrad in 1955.   At the All-Union Art Exhibition of Folk Applied and Decorative Art of the RSFSR in 1958 he was awarded a second-class diploma for the porcelain sculptures “Sketching” and “On the Beach”. In 1959 Gendelman's works were exhibited at the International Ceramics Exhibition in Ostend, and in 1985 a solo exhibition of the master's works took place. The sculptor's works are held in the State Hermitage, the State Russian Museum, the Kuskovo Museum-Reserve, the Pavlovsk Museum-Reserve, the Yelagin Island Palace Museum, the LFZ Museum and others, and in private collections. Elizaveta Nikolaevna Lupanova (1910–1973) – artist. In the late 1920s she entered the ceramics department of the Leningrad Art and Industry Technical School. In 1937 fate linked Elizaveta Nikolaevna with the legendary Leningrad Porcelain Factory (LFZ), where until the start of the Great Patriotic War she painted porcelain wares. In October 1944 Lupanova returned to her work at LFZ, where right up to the late 1960s she made her contribution, as far as she was able, to the creation of the golden fund of Soviet porcelain, occasionally trying her hand as a sculptor. As a leading specialist of the factory's art laboratory, Lupanova became the author of painting prototypes for the genre sculpture of such renowned sculptors as N. Ya. Danko, E. A. Gendelman, I. L. Slonim, G. S. Stolbova, S. B. Velikhova, I. N. Nikonova and others. Elizaveta Nikolaevna took part in all the factory's exhibitions. Height – 17.5 cm; base – 15.7x8.6. Condition: in good condition, signs of use.