Zarytska, Sofiia
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Zarytska, Sofiia [Зарицька, Софія; Zaryc'ka, Sofija], b 21 August 1897 in Peremyshl, Galicia, d 17 April 1972 in Chennevières, France. Painter and graphic artist; cousin of Yevheniia Zarytska. She studied art under Oleksa Novakivsky in Lviv (1920–3) and at the Prague Academy of Arts (1924–8) and the Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts in Prague. After moving with her husband, Petro Omelchenko, to Paris she joined the Salon des Artistes Indépendants and displayed her works at its annual exhibitions and at exhibitions of the Salon d’Automne in Paris and the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists in Lviv. After the Second World War her work was shown at group exhibitions almost annually in Paris and the United States of America. Emphasizing line rather than color, she expressed herself in oil, tempera, and monotype. The main themes of her work were motherhood, childhood, and female friendship. Representative of her work are paintings such as Woman and Girls (1950) and monotypes such as Girl’s Head (1950) and Two Girls (1954). Zarytska, together with many of her and Omelchenko’s works, perished in a house fire.
[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]