Three Women Figures

The most prominent artist of Ukrainian avant-garde. Oleksandra Ekster studied in Kyiv and Paris, where she met Picasso, Braque, Apollinaire, Marinetti. Ekster promoted new art, participated in the resonant avant-garde exhibitions Lanka (1908) and Kiltse (1914). Oleksandra Ekster's art studio was an important center of Kyiv's cultural life of the 1918-1920s. The artist educated a whole generation of the theatrical design innovators - Anatol Petrytskyi, Vadym Meller, Isak Rabinovych - who contributed to the development of Ukrainian theatre in the 1920s