Figurine “Beach”

Technique: Porcelain, painting, gilding, lustre.
Size: Height 9 cm.

USSR, Kyiv Experimental Ceramic and Art Factory, 1960s. Porcelain, painting. Sculptor: O. Rapai Height 9 cm. On the base, mark in blue “Kyiv / 1 S / 15” Good condition, signs of use and wear on the glaze. Literature: I. Pelinsky, M. Safonova. Soviet Porcelain 1917-1991 Illustrated Reference and Identification Guide, p. 335 In the mid-20th century, the use of Petrykivka painting on porcelain was widely introduced for the first time at the Kyiv Experimental Ceramic and Art Factory. The enterprise employed well-known craftswomen from Petrykivka, pupils of Tatiana Pata: Marfa Timchenko, Vera Klimenko-Zhukova, Pelageya Glushchenko, Vera Pavlenko and Galina Pavlenko-Chernichenko. It was the only enterprise with established mass production of porcelain decorated with painting by masters from the main school of Petrykivka painting. Other well-known porcelain artists and sculptors also worked at the factory: O. L. Zhnikrup, V. I. Shcherbina, O. P. Rapai-Markish, G. M. Kaluga, A. D. Sorokin and many others. AW Auctions, 29 November 2023, Russian Art of the 19th-20th Centuries No. 33, lot 131 – 10 000 RUB