Female portrait / Zhinochyi portret

A bust image of a middle-aged woman, inscribed in a circle. The image is presented in full face. She has curly dark chestnut hair, cropped short, thick dark eyebrows and dark brown eyes, wide cheekbones. She is dressed in a black dress with a transparent colored border in a shallow neckline. A white scarf is draped over her right shoulder. The background is gray-blue with small pink flowers. Near the right edge is the signature in black paint “P. Kuznetsov 1916” (“П.Кузнєцов 1916”). On the back, at the bottom right, there is a stamp in black paint of the Kyiv Museum of Art Administration “1-a” and the number “ж – 763”. The artwork is matted. The canvas is sagging. At the top of the left edge there is a round hole measuring 0.4 cm. At the bottom in the center are paint screes in the form of an oval. At the center of the left edge there is a scratch, on the right in the background there are several point screes. A few spotty screes.