The Lyrical Cycle or Lyrical Suite is a series of five oil-on-canvas paintings by Russian artist Alexander Tyshler, all produced in 1928.

History

In 1928, Tyshler used the image of a wicker basket as the central motif for his set design for a production of

Lope de Vega Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (; 25 November 156227 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Spanish Baroque literature, Baroque literature. In the literature of ...

's ''The Sheep's Well'' by the Belarusian State Jewish Theater in Minsk, the basket's texture evoked the laconic architecture of the Spanish village where the play was set. He produced the ''Cycle'' the same year, again centered on a wicker basket, this time huge in dimensions and mysterious in purpose. In the different works, it is filled with pigeons, men, horses and donkeys. The second work shows a long-legged girl in a hat standing next to the basket, which is divided into three horizontal tiers, occupied from top to bottom by two donkeys, two male heads and doves. He also used the wicker basket motif in his 'Crimea Cycle' of watercolors, which were exhibited alongside the ''Lyrical Cycle'' at the fourth OCT exhibition in April 1928, where they were fiercely criticised. Вера Чайковская. Тышлер: Непослушный взрослый. — М.: Молодая гвардия, 2010. — 336 с. — (Жизнь замечательных людей). — ISBN 978-5-235-03368-9.

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