Kiss

Sophia Levytska was a Ukrainian artist and translator who worked in Paris. She made her debut at the Paris Independent Salon and the Autumn Salon where she received critical acclaim. She worked on the design of the French periodicals Revue Musical, and Trésor de la bibliothèque, made woodcuttings for Jean de Joinville's History of Saint Louis, cooperated with Henri Matisse for Montjoie! (a historical French cultural magazine), and illustrated Apollinaire's poetry for the Paris literary and artistic magazine L-ELAN.

Kiss is one of the most famous of Levytska's graphic works. The author used the illusion of a double image: depending on the interpretation, the face in the foreground may belong to either man or a woman. The work demonstrates a peculiar feature of Levytska's manner: the final form is attained, combined with ornamentation.

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