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Artist Zinaida Serebryakova. Life in pictures. The forbidden love of a brilliant artist (Zinaida Serebryakova) Works by Zinaida Serebriakova

After visiting the long-awaited exhibition of Zinaida Serebryakova in the Engineering Castle of the Tretyakov Gallery, I am sharing my impressions. More than two hundred works by the artist from Russian and French collections are presented here, some of which came to Russia for the first time. These are mostly paintings written in exile after separation from children and trepidation at the upcoming unknown. Her works amazingly combined modernity and a subtle adherence to classical traditions; art critic Dmitry Sarabyanov wrote about Zinaida Serebryakova as a sublimely dreamy artist, calm, detached from the worries of time, turned to the beautiful past.


Tata with vegetables, 1923


In the studio of Osip Emmanuilovich Braz, 1905-1906


In a studio. Paris, 1905-1906

The themes of the paintings at the exhibition are very diverse: landscapes (Russian, Moroccan, European), original scenes from peasant life, charming and touching portraits of children, which are exhibited both in the main collection and in a separate room, the so-called Children's; portraits of loved ones, acquaintances, genre scenes and so on. Remembering that I have many non-Muscovite friends, I tried to choose for you not the most famous paintings.


Country girl, 1906



This is how Binka fell asleep, 1907


Boris Serebryakov, 1908


Portrait of a Nanny, 1908-1909


Orchard, 1908


Portrait of a student, 1909


Portrait of Zhenya Serebryakov, 1909


View from the window. Neskuchnoye, 1910


Portrait of Olga Konstantinovna Lanceray, 1910


Green apples on branches, 1910. Donetsk Regional Art Museum


Portrait of Mikhail Nikolaevich Benois, 1910, State Russian Museum
One of my favorite portraits of Zinaida Evgenievna)


Portrait of Catherine Lanceray with a child. Early 1910s


Winter landscape, 1910


Portrait of Lola Braz, 1910 Nikolaev Art Museum. V.V. Vereshchagina, Nikolaev


Bather, 1911, Private collection


Nurse with child, 1912


Portrait of a wet nurse, circa 1912


Boris Serebryakov, 1913


Photo from the exhibition of Sergei Mikheev


Peasants, lunch, 1914-1915


Peasant woman putting on her shoes, 1915


Two peasant girls


Portrait of E.E. Lancer in a hat, 1915. Emergency situation, Moscow


Sketches for the murals of the Kazansky railway station restaurant, 1916



Persia Siam


Türkiye (Odalisque) India


Two odalisques, 1916
In 1915-1916, Serebryakova, together with others world of arts worked on the decorative design of the Kazansky railway station restaurant and made several sketches for a panel representing allegories of the countries of the East.


Bathers, 1917


Tata and Katya (At the mirror), 1917


On the terrace in Kharkov, 1919
Last happy days...


House of Cards, 1919

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Portrait of Sergei Rostislavovich Ernst, 1921 and 1922


Portrait of E.I. Zolotarevsky as a child, 1922. National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk


Boys in sailor vests, 1919 Girls at the piano, 1922


Portrait of the artist Dmitry Bushen, 1922


Still life with attributes of art, 1922


Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, 1922


In the kitchen. Portrait of Katya, 1923


Portrait of Olga Iosifovna Rybakova as a child, 1923


Tata ballerina, 1924


Self-portrait, 1920s

The revolution brought only troubles: first, their house was burned along with the library, many drawings and canvases, and two years later, husband Boris Serebryakov died of typhus. Having suffered greatly in the country of the Soviets, in search of work, Zinaida Alexandrovna was forced to leave for Paris in 1924, becoming a first-wave emigrant with a difficult, but at the same time wonderful fate. Younger son and her daughter left with her mother; she was able to meet her elders only forty years later.



Versailles. Rooftops of the city, 1924


Portrait of the architect A.Ya. Beloborodova, 1925


Portraits of Princess Irina Yusupova and Prince Felix Yusupov, 1925


Sandra Loris-Melikova, 1925


Portrait of Sergei Prokofiev's son Svyatoslav, 1927, pastel


Portrait of Felisin Kakan, 1928. Private collection


Marrakesh. View from the terrace of the Atlas Mountains, 1928


Sunlit, 1928


Castellan. Valley, 1929


Luxembourg Gardens, 1930


Luxembourg Gardens, 1930


Collioure. Katya on the terrace. 1930


Menton. Beach with umbrellas, 1930


Basket with grapes on the window. Menton, 1931


Maria Butakova, née Evreinova, 1931


Portrait of Marianne de Brouwer, 1931. Private collection


Nude from behind, 1932


Nude with a red scarf, 1932. Private collection


Reclining Moroccan woman, Marrakesh, 1932


Moroccan in green, 1932


Young Moroccan, 1932. Private collection

Moroccan motifs occupy a significant place in Serebryakova’s work. She visited this country twice. Morocco fascinated the artist; its extraordinary color inspired her. A whole series of works was painted here, mostly portraits. To present these works at least superficially, even my rather succinct posts are not enough) The exhibition of paintings in Paris was a resounding success, but Zinaida Evgenievna did not manage to sell a single work. She was a great artist, but a bad manager.



Study of a woman, 1932. Private collection


Moroccan woman in pink dress, 1932



England, 1933


Woman in Blue, 1934

M. B. Meilakh. Children of Serebryakova (conversation with Ekaterina Serebryakova)

I first visited the Serebryakovs' Parisian studio, which strangely preserves the St. Petersburg atmosphere (it reminded me of Braz's studio apartment opposite New Holland, with the same floor-to-ceiling windows - during my youth, organist Isaiah Braudo and his family lived there) at the beginning of 1990 's, during the life of Alexander Serebryakov. It was strange to think that he and his sister Ekaterina Borisovna, both of advanced years, were those lovely little ones with everything famous paintings Zinaida Serebryakova, their mother, who gave them eternal childhood. To this day, the studio houses many of the artist’s Parisian paintings, among them, again, children’s portraits of people whom I knew in Paris when they were no longer young. Serebryakova’s paintings, alas, were not appreciated for too long and only in last years suddenly reached record valuations, which allowed Ekaterina Borisovna, having sold only a few things, to continue, with the help of friends, the long-begun work of systematizing the art archive of her mother and recently deceased brother, and organizing their exhibitions. Having visited her again recently, I was able to add to our long-standing conversation.

- If possible, let's start from the beginning. Your famous mother, artist Zinaida Serebryakova, also comes from a family of artists - Lanceray and Benois...

Yes, and dad is her cousin, so it's the same family. And all are immigrants from France. The Serebryakov surname is Russian, and the roots of the whole family are French. But both families, Lanseray and Benois, lived in Russia for many years and, as artists and architects, left a big mark on culture. Then well-known events happened - a revolution that deprived us of the opportunity to live in Russia. But our house still stands in St. Petersburg - next to the St. Nicholas Cathedral and the Mariinsky Theater, it is even called the “Benoit House”, a memorial plaque was recently hung there. But I grew up already in the revolutionary years...

- Please tell us about it.

I don’t remember myself as a child, nor do I remember our Neskuchny estate in the former Kursk province (now Kharkov region), but we have photographs from which my brother later painted a picture. I am now corresponding with Ukraine, because they want to create a museum there, they have even opened a small museum in some house, although there are only photographs of my mother’s works and old photographs of these places. But it’s gratifying that Ukrainians are doing this. Mom’s works ended up in all the main Ukrainian museums - in Kyiv, Kharkov and Odessa, and these are very good things - her name is also known and appreciated there. And in Siberia, after the exhibition in Novosibirsk in 1966, she is also known and remembered - I have extensive correspondence with all the museums that have her works.

- When are your first memories?

The estate in Neskuchny, near Kharkov, as I already said, I hardly remember. During the first revolutionary years, my father worked in Siberia, he was building a railway there, so my mother remained in Neskuchny alone with four children and grandmother Ekaterina Lanceray, her mother; grandfather died very early, also leaving big family. Previously, our peasants treated us well, they respected us, the mother of these peasants painted - there are a lot of such works, and it was their photographs that the Ukrainians exhibited in their small museum. However, during revolutionary events that didn't stop them from destroying everything. Until very recently, there was still a church that belonged to the estate, but now they wrote to me that the church no longer exists. Perhaps it was not possible to preserve it due to dilapidation - churches now seem to be no longer being destroyed.

So, when the revolution happened, we first moved to a farmstead, since there was nothing to heat the house with, and then the peasants warned us that we had to leave, because if we stayed on the estate, they would slaughter us all. We moved to Kharkov, where my mother rented a small apartment; the windows looked out onto such a green courtyard with many trees - they recently sent me a photograph of the house where we lived, and even our window. But I was still very small then - I was born in June of the thirteenth year. I am the youngest in the family, I had an older sister and two older brothers - Evgeniy and Alexander. Alexander became an artist - here in Paris, and Evgeniy became an architect - there in Russia. He built a lot: I have correspondence, photographs.

In the twenties, all Russian artists had to decide what to do, how to live further. Many began to leave abroad. Alexander Benois left with his family, his older brother Albert also left. (Albert is a wonderful artist; he was such a wonderful watercolorist that even the Emperor himself came to watch him work; my brother studied with him. Albert, like Alexandre Benois, was, in addition, theater artist-director.) A lot of people left, and my mother didn’t know what to do. There was no money - dad died in 1919, very early.

- Why did he die so young?

He was on research in Siberia and after the revolution returned to Moscow, where the Bolsheviks put him in Butyrka. When he was released, he wanted to quickly return to his family and was forced to travel in terrible conditions: although according to his position he was entitled to a first-class ticket, he took the one that was given to him. And then a terrible typhus epidemic raged. And, obviously, in the cramped conditions of the carriage, he contracted typhus and died a few days later in Kharkov in his mother’s arms. There, in Kharkov, he is buried. Mom was left alone with four children and a mother. What was to be done? We knew that our apartment on the First Line in St. Petersburg had been looted, but my mother still decided to go there, to our nest. When we arrived, it turned out that our apartment no longer existed, but there was Benoit’s house on Glinka Street - some offices were set up there and they moved out. Benoit - Alexander and Albert - continued to live in this house, but became vacated former apartment grandfathers in the mezzanine, and we were able to move in. This apartment was also plundered, but it was large, with many rooms, and other people related to art were also settled there. The artist Dmitry Bushen and the art critic Ernst lived there - they served in the Hermitage. My mother’s brother Nikolai lived in an apartment at the Russian Museum - he served there. But everything was ruined, and the Benois moved abroad. Mom corresponded with them and after a while she also went to Paris.

In her youth she had been to Paris, she was familiar with it, but how to live here? She rented a small, dark room in a hotel in the Latin Quarter. How to draw? At first there weren't even any colors. She couldn’t invite people to her place - it was dark, it was impossible to write, so she had to go to work with customers. There was no money - she sent all the money to the family, she had to feed five people: me, my two brothers, my sister and my grandmother. And Evgeny Lansere also helped his grandmother, his mother, a little. Mom went alone, hoping that she could make money with portraits - after all, it was a large Russian colony - and then gradually get her family discharged. She made portraits of people from high society; I don’t even have photographs of all the works - my mother didn’t take pictures then. The first - in 1925 - she signed up her brother Alexander, who was still very young, but was already a good painter. And here he became an artist. When Nikolai Benois made the scenery for Paris Opera, his brother helped him. They worked in opera workshops, which were located in old barns on Porte de Clichy, and Nikolai taught him how to make layouts and paint backgrounds: first the horizon line is written, then the perspective is built. Then Nikolai went to Italy, where he became the main artist La Scala, and his brother began working for cinema, where P. N. Schildknecht invited him (he later published an art magazine in Madrid, where he signed his articles “Escudero”). Many Russian artists and architects worked in cinema at that time - by the way, sets for silent black-and-white cinema were often not built, but painted. My brother made layouts and wrote backgrounds, perspectives of what is seen through open windows and doors. He had to paint exotic Mexican landscapes and China, and for the film Les bateliers de la Volga with Chaliapin - Volga. This film was shot in the Gironde: there are flat landscapes and flat banks of the Garonne River, and my brother converted the barges there into Volga barges.

When the war started, they stopped making films, and my brother worked on applied arts, for example, he made drawings for lampshades with views of cities - Paris, Venice, New York - with images of ancient caravels or flowers, and designed display windows for Russian stores, of which there were many at that time. He worked for more than half a century For fashion stores, collaborating with Trois Quartiers and Maison Delvaux. He also collaborated in Russian publications, for example, the font of the title of “Russian Thought”, a Parisian newspaper that has been published in Paris for more than half a century, is his; and I made posters for Lifar. (After Lifar’s death, by the way, he replaced him as chairman of the Society for the Preservation of Russian Cultural Treasures Abroad.) He also illustrated books, including publications of an antique company Maison Popoff. Subsequently, he made a stamp for the millennium of the Baptism of Rus'. For exhibitions in the Museum decorative arts my brother made very beautiful maps, for example of French colonial possessions or antiquities Latin America. But he also painted old Paris, and he was not at all moved when onlookers stopped and watched him work. Some of the neighborhoods he painted no longer exist - for example, the one where the Pompidou Center now stands. In general, he was a jack of all trades, and most importantly, a very good artist, I have a fair amount of his works. It would be nice to send some of them to Russia, but here it is more interesting - let them keep it here. I think it's important to preserve the memory of a family of artists. I also drew - and still draw - and could help my brother. My specialty is miniature painting.

Mom, in essence, was a sick person - few people had such a hard life as she did. But she continued to paint, not only portraits, but also landscapes.

- What year did you arrive?

I arrived only in the twenty-eighth.

- Only in the twenty-eighth... How was your life in Russia without your mother?

We lived with my grandmother and loved her very much. After I left, my brother, sister and grandmother still remained in Russia. In Russia we also had hard life. Grandmother was already at a respectable age, she could not work... Although she also drew wonderfully - the whole family painted... We still lived in the “Benois house”, on the mezzanine. My sister was placed in a ballet school - they thought it was better: they studied French there, after school graduates got the opportunity to work in theaters... And I am the youngest, and I was sent to the 47th Soviet school; I walked there past a very beautiful famous building - New Holland. There was no French language there - they studied German.

With the help of the Red Cross, my mother decided to also discharge me, my youngest daughter, in order to make life a little easier for the already very elderly grandmother. I was traveling through Berlin - we had relatives there, Benois, who met me and put me on a Parisian train. When I arrived, my mother rented a small apartment with three rooms - for herself, for me and for my brother Alexander. It was very cramped there, and the ceiling was so low that you couldn’t even set up an easel properly. And my mother also loved to write big things. It was very difficult to work: mom works, Shura works, and then there’s me... And for customers, especially from high society, it’s too far away, the outskirts of Paris. Porte de Versailles the place itself is not bad - there are good “bourgeois” houses there, our apartment was on the sixth floor, and there was a beautiful view from the windows - the outskirts were not yet built up, as they are now. Many lived there famous artists- not only Russians, but also French, and all sorts of others. But still, it was the outskirts, and most importantly, it was very cramped and impossible to paint: “a non-artistic apartment,” so we also rented a small workshop in a neighboring house. And soon they rented a studio in Montmartre, where many artists lived, on rue Blanche; there you had to first pass through the courtyard, then climb the non-grand staircase; besides, there was only one small room for my brother, so that was no good either. But my mother worked a lot there too - she went to all her famous customers...

During the war, in 1942, we moved here to Montparnasse - the artist Sergei Ivanov advised us to rent a vacant studio on the third floor of this house, where many Russian artists lived. We are now in another workshop - that one was better, bigger, and in this one the balcony takes up a lot of space. The war found us here. I saw troops passing under the windows. But we didn’t move anywhere, we stayed here in Paris. So what to do? And so continuous ordeals...

- The war probably had its difficulties?

Yes, sure. During the war, everything was distributed on ration cards; nothing could be freely purchased. And most importantly, we were not yet French - many people who did not take care of this, hoping to return to Russia, found themselves without reliable papers during the war. It’s good that brother Shura wasn’t taken away... And after the war, all three of us received French citizenship.

Then we had to, in order not to move, buy a workshop here and sell it right away en viager, that is, the owner buys it cheaper, but will be able to use it only after the death of the old owner - and due to this, pay money for it. It was bought by a Frenchman who has nothing to do with art - he simply decided to make a profitable investment. He probably hoped that I would die soon and he would be able to sell this workshop again - for a lot of money. But, as you can see, I’m still living, although I’m almost ninety.

We all lived here together - mom, me and brother. The paintings you see here were hung by my mother. She died in sixty-seven...

- Can I ask you a strange question? I have known your mother’s self-portraits since childhood, and as far as one can judge, she was an absolutely charming woman. But what kind of character was she - easy?

Yes, very easy, but she was shy. And the main thing for her was work. As for all of us. To do everything we did, you first needed to be very good at drawing. My brother's works are wonderful drawings...

- What is the fate of your sister and brother who remained in Russia?

The older sister - she had already died - married the theater artist Valentin Nikolaev and lived in Moscow. She graduated from the ballet school in Leningrad, but did not dance, but also became a theater artist, working with Vladimir Vasiliev. She has two sons: one of them died early, and the second, my nephew Ivan, is an artist. He recently came here, painted Paris... My sister published my mother’s letters that she wrote to Russia. And the older brother Evgeniy became, as I already said, an architect. He lived in St. Petersburg and died there recently.

- Tell me, when you came to Paris after Soviet school - you were already fifteen years old, - Was it a bit of a shock?

Shock? No, I came to see my mother. True, they sent me to special school where they trained French and where only foreigners studied. I sat there next to an English woman with whom I became friends for life. She recently died. My mother and I also traveled to England - she had orders there, but mainly to Belgium, where there were more orders. There was a large exhibition of Russian art, and, according to stories, the king stopped in front of my mother’s painting. The Belgians probably thought: since the king stopped... One rich Belgian businessman ordered portraits of his mother and his wife. He lived in Bruges, he had a luxurious house with a garden there. And then he sent his mother to Morocco, where he had business interests - he owned palm groves. He convinced my mother that she should go: “There are such colors, such interesting types! I'll pay your way." Mom went and painted many paintings, which we still have today. And this patron took the best things for himself - there was an exhibition of these works in Belgium. And these rich people invited me to their place, I lived in their family, painted... I know Belgium - Brussels, Bruges, Ostend... And my brother also visited Belgium and painted there. My brother is a wonderful watercolorist, the Rothschilds released an album of his works, called Alexandre S?rebriakoff. Portraitiste d'int?rieurs. And I helped him finish things so that he wouldn’t waste extra time on the faces of the Rothschilds. However, they also knew me as an artist.

- Nikita Lobanov says that your brother painted the interiors of almost all important houses in France...

Well, that's an exaggeration. But we worked in this environment and knew it: the president of the Coty company, the family of the Duke de Brisac...

- How did he start painting interiors?

Polovtsev, a famous Russian antiquarian in Paris, recommended his brother to Carlos de Bestegui, with whom he had studied at Eton. Carlos came from a Spanish family that had rich art collections, some of which his uncle donated to the Louvre. Three or four years before the war, Carlos bought the estate and rebuilt the castle with the participation of the Russian architect Kremer, who committed suicide shortly after the occupation. He decorated this castle with great taste, but also with incredible luxury - original tapestries, antique furniture - and his brother was invited to sketch these interiors. Since he was not only an excellent draftsman, but also possessed the skills of architectural perspective, it turned out very well.

- Two years ago this estate was sold at auction - the sale was arranged by Sotheby’s; everyone went there to admire the artistic treasures...

Then de Besteguiy invited his brother to sketch the interiors of his parents' mansion on Place des Invalides, which he inherited. In 1951, my brother made sketches of a ball in his Venetian mansion - Palazzo Labbia with paintings by Tiepolo, and frescoes from the 18th century on the subject Fantèmes de Venise restored from ancient engravings by Salvador Dali. The ball was dedicated to the theme “Antony and Cleopatra”. My brother also painted interiors in the spirit of the 18th century in a mansion in Neuilly that belonged to the wealthy Chilean Arthur Lopez Vilschau. Then it was sold, and now there is a museum there, and in the hall there is a model of the mansion made by my brother. Another famous 17th century mansion now owned by the Rothschilds is Hôtel Lambert on the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris, decorated by Lebrun.

- Both Voltaire and Rousseau lived in it...

After the revolution, it housed a wine warehouse, then a hospital, and from the mid-19th century it belonged to the Czartoryski princes. Another interesting house that my brother painted is the Counts de Beaumont on rue Masseran behind the Invalides Square; After the war it was bought by the Rothschilds, and now the Ivory Coast embassy is there.

- Rostislav Dobuzhinsky told me that he restored the interiors of this mansion. Did your brother have to live in these houses to paint his watercolors?

Yes, if it was not in Paris, my brother and I were invited, and we stayed there for some time. And when my mother and I went to England, she painted portraits there, and I painted England - but not London, but the rich country estates of our customers. For some time we lived with our cousin: our grandmother’s sister married a rich Englishman, Edwards, and these were their relatives, woolen manufacturers, and they ordered their portraits from my mother. In England we still have relatives on the Benois side, but they are poor people. Thus, we had certain special periods of life and work - English, Belgian...

- Who did your brother study with? Mom?

Almost no one has. Not my mother, not anyone. None of us studied with anyone, and Mom didn’t study with anyone. We all draw from childhood. As soon as a child is born, he is given a pencil and he begins to draw.

Both my mother and brother are real artists, and they always tried to make real things, and not what is fashionable. Nowadays only new art is honored. But there is no new and old art - there is only art.

1990–2002 Paris

(Russian Thought. Paris, 2003. February 27-March 5. The full version of the interview is being printed, kindly provided by the author M. B. Meilakh)

This text is an introductory fragment.

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Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova is a famous Russian artist. appeared a prominent representative association of artists "". She is also known as one of the first Russian women to go down in the history of Russian painting.

Zinaida Serebryakova (before her marriage - Lansere) was born on December 12, 1884 in the village of Neskuchnoye in the Kharkov province. Since childhood, she has been surrounded by creativity and art. The fact is that Zinaida Evgenievna was born into a family that was famous for its real talents in various types creativity. Her grandfather was the famous architect Nikolai Benois (1813-1898). Famous sculptor There was also Zinaida’s father - (1848-1886). Zinaida also had a sister, Alexandra Benois, who was engaged in graphics, a brother, Nikolai, an architect, and a brother, Evgeniy, a graphic artist and painter. It is worth noting that the line of talented sculptors and artists did not end with Zinaida Serebryakova. Daughter Evgenia became an architect and restorer, son Alexander became a famous designer and artist, daughter Tatyana became an Honored Artist of the RSFSR, daughter Ekaterina became an artist.

Zinaida Lansere graduated from the women's gymnasium and art school. She was a student of the famous painter Osip Emmanuilovich Braz (1873-1936). She also studied at the Parisian Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1905 she married railway engineer Boris Serebryakov.

The art of the artist who glorified Russian painting is very soulful and warm. With the help of her creativity, she tried to convey to the viewer the beauty of the Russian land and Russian culture. She also traveled a lot. In 1924 she went to Paris and for a long time could not see her children. The first time after separation she met her daughter only 36 years later in 1960, when the Khrushchev thaw began. She died in Paris on September 19, 1967. Currently, her paintings are in collections of such major museums, like: Odessa Art Museum, Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery.

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Zinaida Serebryakova paintings

Self-portrait dressed as Pierrot

Self-portrait of Zinaida Serebryakova in a white blouse

Self-portrait with daughters

Ballerinas in the restroom

Whitening canvas

Brittany. The town of Pon-l Abbe. Port

Bakery from Lepik Street

In the dressing room

Girl with black braids

Girl with a candle

Elena Braslavskaya

At breakfast

Behind the toilet. Self-portrait

Recently, the Nashchokin House Gallery hosted an exhibition dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the famous artist from the Benois family, Zinaida Serebryakova.
This is amazing, cheerful and powerful, not at all women's painting. And looking at her it is completely impossible to guess what difficult fate God has prepared for this amazing woman.

Behind the toilet. Self-portrait.1908-1909. Tretyakov Gallery

I think everyone knows the Benois family, famous in our art.
So the sister of Alexander Nikolaevich Benois - Ekaterina Nikolaevna (she was also a graphic artist) married the sculptor Evgeniy Alexandrovich Lanceray. Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Lansere was the best artist animal painter of his time. I would even say not only mine.
The Lansere family owned the Neskuchnoye estate near Kharkov. And there, on December 10, 1884, their daughter Zinochka, their sixth and last child, was born.
Two sons Evgeniy and Nikolai also became creative personalities. Nikolai became a talented architect, and Evgeniy Evgenievich -

- like my sister, she is an artist. He played an important role in the history of Russian and Soviet art monumental painting and graphics.
When Zinochka was 2 years old, dad died of tuberculosis. And she, her brothers and mother went to St. Petersburg to visit her grandfather. To the big Benoit family.
Children's and teenage years Zinaida Evgenievna passed in St. Petersburg. The architecture and museums of St. Petersburg, and the luxurious park of Tsarskoye Selo, where the family went in the summer, had an influence on the formation of the young artist. Spirit high art reigned in the house. In the Benois and Lancer families, the main meaning of life was service to art. Every day Zina could watch how adults worked selflessly, painted a lot in watercolors, a technique that everyone in the family mastered.

The girl’s talent developed under the close attention of older family members: her mother and brothers, who were preparing to become professional artists. The entire home environment of the family fostered respect for classical art: grandfather’s stories -

Portrait 1901
Nikolai Leontyevich about the Academy of Arts, trips with children to Italy, where they got acquainted with the masterpieces of the Renaissance, visiting museums.

1876-1877: the fountain in front of the facade of the Admiralty, in collaboration with A.R. Geshvend, was made by N.L. Benoit.
In 1900, Zinaida graduated from a women's gymnasium and entered an art school founded by Princess M.K. Tenisheva. In 1903-1905, she was a student of the portrait artist O. E. Braz, who taught to see the “general” when drawing, and not to paint “in parts.” In 1902-1903 she travels to Italy. In 1905-1906 he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.

Winter in Tsarskoe Selo.
In 1905, in St. Petersburg, S. Diaghilev organized an exhibition of Russian portrait painters. For the first time, the beauty of the art of Rokotov, Levitsky, Borovikovsky, Venetsianov was revealed to the Russian public... Venetsianov's portraits of peasants and the poeticization of peasant labor inspired Zinaida Serebryakova to create her paintings and pushed her to seriously work on portraits.

Self-portrait
Since 1898, Serebryakova spends almost every spring and summer in Neskuchny. The work of young peasant girls in the fields attracts her Special attention. Subsequently, this will be reflected more than once in her work.

Harvesting bread
Not far from the Lansere estate, on the other side of the river on a farm, there is the Serebryakovs’ house. Native sister Evgenia Aleksandrovich Lansere - Zinaida - married Anatoly Serebryakov. Their son Boris Anatolyevich Serebryakov was thus a cousin cousin female artists.

Since childhood, Zina and Borya have been raised together. They are nearby both in St. Petersburg and Neskuchny. They love each other, are ready to unite their lives, and their families accept their relationship. But the difficulty is that the church did not encourage marriages of close relatives. In addition, Zinaida is of the Roman Catholic faith, Boris is Orthodox. After long ordeals, trips to Belgorod and Kharkov to see the spiritual authorities, these obstacles were finally removed, and on September 9, 1905 they got married.
Zinaida was passionate about painting, Boris was preparing to become a railway engineer. Both, as they say, doted on each other and made the brightest plans for the future.

Peasant woman with kvass.
After the wedding, the young couple went to Paris. Each of them had special plans connected with this trip. Zinaida attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where she painted from life, and Boris enrolled in High school bridges and roads as a volunteer.

A year later, full of impressions, the Serebryakovs return home.

In Neskuchny, Zinaida works hard - she writes sketches, portraits and landscapes, and Boris, as a caring and skillful owner, mows reeds, plants apple trees, monitors the cultivation of the land and the harvest, and is interested in photography.

She and Zinaida are very different people, but these differences seem to complement and unite them. And when they are apart (which happens often), Zinaida’s mood deteriorates and her work falls out of her hands.
In 1911, Zinaida Serebryakova joined the newly recreated World of Art association, one of the founders of which was her uncle, Alexander Nikolaevich

Portrait of B. Serebryakov.
Since August 1914, B.A. Serebryakov was the head of the survey party in construction railway Irkutsk - Bodaibo, and later, until 1919, took part in the construction of the Ufa - Orenburg railway. This one in its own way happy marriage brought the spouses four children - sons Zhenya and Shura, daughters Tanya and Katya. (All of them subsequently connected their lives with art, becoming artists, architects, and decorators.) Tatyana Borisovna died in 1989. She was a very interesting theater artist, she taught at the Moscow Academy of Arts in memory of 1905. I knew her. She was a bright, talented artist until her old age with very bright, radiant, black cherry eyes. That's how it is with all her children.

At breakfast
If I had not seen these eyes myself in life, I would not have believed in the portraits of Z. Serebryakova.
Apparently everyone in their family had such eyes.
Serebryakova’s self-portrait (1909, Tretyakov Gallery (it’s above); first shown at a large exhibition organized by the World of Art in 1910) brought wide fame to Serebryakova.

The self-portrait was followed by “Bather” (1911, Russian Museum), a portrait of the artist’s sister

“Ekaterina Evgenievna Lanceray (Zelenkova)” (1913) and a portrait of the artist’s mother “Ekaterina Lanceray” (1912, Russian Museum)

- mature works, solid in composition. She joined the World of Art society in 1911, but differed from the other members of the group in her love for simple subjects, harmony, plasticity and generalizations in her paintings.

Self-portrait. Pierrot 1911
In 1914-1917, the work of Zinaida Serebryakova experienced a period of prosperity. During these years she painted a series of paintings on the themes folk life, peasant work and the Russian village, which was so close to her heart: “Peasants” (1914-1915, Russian Museum).

The most important of these works was “Whitening the Canvas” (1917, State Tretyakov Gallery). The figures of peasant women, captured against the sky, acquire monumentality, emphasized by the low horizon line.

They are all written powerfully, richly, very colorfully. This is the anthem of life.
In 1916, Alexander Benois received an order to paint the Kazansky railway station (*) in Moscow; he invited Evgeny Lanceray, Boris Kustodiev, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and Zinaida Serebryakov to take part in the work. Serebryakova took the theme of the East: India, Japan, Turkey and Siam are allegorically represented as beauties. At the same time, she is working on a large painting on the themes Slavic mythology, which remained unfinished.

Zinaida met October Revolution in his native estate Neskuchnoye. Her life suddenly changed.
In 1919, great grief happened to the family - her husband, Boris, died of typhus. At the age of 35, she is left alone with four children and a sick mother without any means of support. Here I cannot help but note that her mother was also left alone with the children at about this age, and both of them, monogamous, continued to be faithful until death to their deceased husbands, who left them so early at such a young age.

Portrait of B.A. Serebryakov. 1908
Hunger. Neskuchny's reserves were plundered. No oil paints- you have to switch to charcoal and pencil. At this time she draws her most tragic work- House of Cards featuring all four orphaned children.

She refuses to switch to the futuristic style popular with the Soviets or to draw portraits of commissars, but finds work at the Kharkov Archaeological Museum, where she makes pencil sketches of exhibits. In December 1920, Zinaida moved to Petrograd to her grandfather's apartment. They really only had three rooms left. But fortunately they were filled with relatives and friends.
Daughter Tatyana started studying ballet. Zinaida, visiting with her daughter Mariinskii Opera House, there are also behind the scenes. In the theater, the artist constantly painted. Creative communication with ballerinas throughout three years reflected in an amazing series of ballet portraits and compositions.

Ballet restroom. Snowflakes

Portrait of ballerina L.A. Ivanova, 1922.

Katya in a fancy dress at the Christmas tree.


In the same house, on another floor, Alexander Nikolaevich lived with his family, and Zina paints a wonderful portrait of his daughter-in-law with her grandson

Portrait of A.A. Cherkesova-Benoit with her son Alexander.
In the first years after the revolution, lively exhibition activity began in the country. Serebryakova took part in several exhibitions in Petrograd. And in 1924 she became an exhibitor at a large exhibition of Russian visual arts in America, which was established for the purpose of financial assistance to artists. Of the 14 works presented by Zinaida Evgenievna, two were sold immediately. Using the proceeds, she, burdened with worries about her family, decides to travel abroad to organize an exhibition and receive orders. Alexander Nikolaevich Benois advised her to go to France, hoping that her art would be in demand abroad and she would be able to improve her financial situation. At the beginning of September 1924, Serebryakova left for Paris with her two children, Sasha and Katya, who were fond of painting. She left her mother with Tanya, who was fond of ballet, and Zhenya, who decided to become an architect, in Leningrad, hoping to earn money in Paris and return to them.
In the first years of her life in Paris, Zinaida Evgenievna experiences great difficulties: there is not enough money even for necessary expenses. Konstantin Somov, who helped her receive orders for portraits, writes about her situation: “There are no orders. There is poverty at home... Zina sends almost everything home... She is impractical, makes many portraits for nothing for the promise of advertising her, but all the while receiving wonderful things, she is forgotten..."
In Paris, Serebryakova lives alone, goes nowhere except museums, and really misses her children. All the years of emigration, Zinaida Evgenievna writes tender letters to her children and mother, who always spiritually supported her. She lived at this time on a Nansen passport and only in 1947 received French citizenship.

Tanya and Katya. girls at the piano 1922.

self-portrait with daughters 1921.

Zhenya 1907

Zhenya 1909
Zinaida travels a lot. In 1928 and 1930 he travels to Africa and visits Morocco. The nature of Africa amazes her, she draws the Atlas Mountains, Arab women, Africans in bright turbans. She also paints a series of paintings dedicated to the fishermen of Brittany.

Marrakesh. Walls and Towers of the city.


Moroccan woman in a pink dress.

Marokesh. Pensive man.

During the Khrushchev Thaw, contacts with Serebryakova were allowed. In 1960, after 36 years of separation, her daughter Tatyana (Tata), who became a theater artist at the Moscow Art Theater, visited her. In 1966, large exhibitions of Serebryakova's works were shown in Moscow, Leningrad and Kyiv. Suddenly she becomes popular in Russia, her albums are printed in millions of copies, and her paintings are compared to Botticelli and Renoir. The children called her to return to Russia. However, Serebryakova finds it inappropriate to burden children and loved ones with worries about themselves at such an advanced age (80 years old). In addition, she understands that she will no longer be able to work fruitfully in her homeland, where her best works were created.
On September 19, 1967, Zinaida Serebryakova died in Paris at the age of 82. She was buried in the cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois.
Serebryakova's children are Evgeny Borisovich Serebryakov (1906-1991), Alexander Borisovich Serebryakov (1907-1995), Tatyana Borisovna Serebryakova (1912-1989), Ekaterina Borisovna Serebryakova (1913- ____).

In October 2007, the Russian Museum hosted personal exhibition“Zinaida Serebryakova. Nudes"
For me, this is a completely separate topic in her work. She writes and draws nudes so powerfully and sensually, completely unfeminine. female body. I don't know another woman artist like her.
One of her most famous from this series:

Bathhouse.

"Bath". 1926

Reclining nude.

And now we just admire her paintings:

Still life with a jug.

Self-portrait.

Self-portrait with scarf 1911.

Serebryakov Boris Anatolievich.

Lansere Olga Konstantivna.

In the kitchen. Portrait of Katya.

Portrait of S.R. Ernst. 1921

Self-portrait with a brush, 1924.

Old lady in a cap. Brittany

Self-Portrait (1922).

Self-Portrait (1946).

Benois Alexander Nikolaevich (1924).

Balanchine George (in costume as Bacchus, 1922).

Benois-Clément Elena Alexandrovna (Elena Braslavskaya, 1934).

Lola Braz (1910).

Scenery. The village of Neskuchnoye, Kursk province.

Paris. Luxembourg Garden.

Menton. View of the city from the harbor.

Menton. Velan Ida (portrait of a lady with a dog, 1926).

HER. Lancer in a hat 1915.

Lifar Sergey Mikhailovich (1961).

Lukomskaya S.A. (1948).

Well, many of you see this all the time

(girl with a candle, self-portrait, 1911).
Also tell me that you don’t know such an artist. After all, every day our Zina reminds us of her :)):)
And finally

Yusupov Felix Feliksovich (prince, 1925).

Yusupova Irina Alexandrovna (princess, 1925).

I already made a post about . But in connection with the exhibition currently taking place at the Nashchokin House Gallery dedicated to its 125th anniversary, I cannot help but rewrite it.
Because this exhibition is not enough for me. It's a pathetic distillation of her work. And I love her no less than Valentina Serova. This is amazing, cheerful and powerful, not at all feminine painting. And looking at her, it is completely impossible to guess what difficult fate God has prepared for this amazing woman.

Behind the toilet. Self-portrait.1908-1909. Tretyakov Gallery

I think everyone knows the Benois family, famous in our art.
So the sister of Alexander Nikolaevich Benois - Ekaterina Nikolaevna (she was also a graphic artist) married the sculptor Evgeniy Alexandrovich Lanceray. Evgeny Aleksandrovich Lanceray was the best animal artist of his time. I would even say not only mine.
The Lansere family owned the Neskuchnoye estate near Kharkov. And there, on December 10, 1884, their daughter Zinochka, their sixth and last child, was born.
Two sons Evgeniy and Nikolai also became creative personalities. Nikolai became a talented architect, and Evgeniy Evgenievich -

- like my sister, she is an artist. He played an important role in the history of Russian and Soviet art of monumental painting and graphics.
When Zinochka was 2 years old, dad died of tuberculosis. And she, her brothers and mother went to St. Petersburg to visit her grandfather. To the big Benoit family.
Zinaida Evgenievna spent her childhood and teenage years in St. Petersburg. The architecture and museums of St. Petersburg, and the luxurious park of Tsarskoye Selo, where the family went in the summer, had an influence on the formation of the young artist. The spirit of high art reigned in the house. In the Benois and Lancer families, the main meaning of life was service to art. Every day Zina could watch how adults worked selflessly, painted a lot in watercolors, a technique that everyone in the family mastered.

The girl’s talent developed under the close attention of older family members: her mother and brothers, who were preparing to become professional artists. The entire home environment of the family fostered respect for classical art: grandfather’s stories -

Portrait 1901
Nikolai Leontyevich about the Academy of Arts, trips with children to Italy, where they got acquainted with the masterpieces of the Renaissance, visiting museums.

1876-1877: the fountain in front of the facade of the Admiralty, in collaboration with A.R. Geshvend, was made by N.L. Benoit.
In 1900, Zinaida graduated from a women's gymnasium and entered an art school founded by Princess M.K. Tenisheva. In 1903-1905, she was a student of the portrait artist O. E. Braz, who taught to see the “general” when drawing, and not to paint “in parts.” In 1902-1903 she travels to Italy. In 1905-1906 he studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.

Winter in Tsarskoe Selo.
In 1905, in St. Petersburg, S. Diaghilev organized an exhibition of Russian portrait painters. For the first time, the beauty of the art of Rokotov, Levitsky, Borovikovsky, Venetsianov was revealed to the Russian public... Venetsianov's portraits of peasants and the poeticization of peasant labor inspired Zinaida Serebryakova to create her paintings and pushed her to seriously work on portraits.

Self-portrait
Since 1898, Serebryakova spends almost every spring and summer in Neskuchny. The work of young peasant girls in the fields attracts her special attention. Subsequently, this will be reflected more than once in her work.

Harvesting bread
Not far from the Lansere estate, on the other side of the river on a farm, there is the Serebryakovs’ house. Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Lansere’s sister, Zinaida, married Anatoly Serebryakov. Their son Boris Anatolyevich Serebryakov was thus the artist’s cousin.

Since childhood, Zina and Borya have been raised together. They are nearby both in St. Petersburg and Neskuchny. They love each other, are ready to unite their lives, and their families accept their relationship. But the difficulty is that the church did not encourage marriages of close relatives. In addition, Zinaida is of the Roman Catholic faith, Boris is Orthodox. After long ordeals, trips to Belgorod and Kharkov to see the spiritual authorities, these obstacles were finally removed, and on September 9, 1905 they got married.
Zinaida was passionate about painting, Boris was preparing to become a railway engineer. Both, as they say, doted on each other and made the brightest plans for the future.

Peasant woman with kvass.
After the wedding, the young couple went to Paris. Each of them had special plans connected with this trip. Zinaida attended the Academy de la Grande Chaumiere, where she painted from life, and Boris enrolled in the Higher School of Bridges and Roads as a volunteer.

A year later, full of impressions, the Serebryakovs return home.

In Neskuchny, Zinaida works hard - she writes sketches, portraits and landscapes, and Boris, as a caring and skillful owner, mows reeds, plants apple trees, monitors the cultivation of the land and the harvest, and is interested in photography.

She and Zinaida are very different people, but these differences seem to complement and unite them. And when they are apart (which happens often), Zinaida’s mood deteriorates and her work falls out of her hands.
In 1911, Zinaida Serebryakova joined the newly recreated World of Art association, one of the founders of which was her uncle, Alexander Nikolaevich

Portrait of B. Serebryakov.
Since August 1914, B.A. Serebryakov was the head of the survey party for the construction of the Irkutsk - Bodaibo railway, and later, until 1919, he took part in the construction of the Ufa - Orenburg railway. This happy marriage, in its own way, brought the couple four children - sons Zhenya and Shura, daughters Tanya and Katya. (All of them subsequently connected their lives with art, becoming artists, architects, and decorators.) Tatyana Borisovna died in 1989. She was a very interesting theater artist, she taught at the Moscow Academy of Arts in memory of 1905. I knew her. She was a bright, talented artist until her old age with very bright, radiant, black cherry eyes. That's how it is with all her children.

At breakfast
If I had not seen these eyes myself in life, I would not have believed in the portraits of Z. Serebryakova.
Apparently everyone in their family had such eyes.
Serebryakova’s self-portrait (1909, Tretyakov Gallery (it’s above); first shown at a large exhibition organized by the World of Art in 1910) brought wide fame to Serebryakova.

The self-portrait was followed by “Bather” (1911, Russian Museum), a portrait of the artist’s sister

“Ekaterina Evgenievna Lanceray (Zelenkova)” (1913) and a portrait of the artist’s mother “Ekaterina Lanceray” (1912, Russian Museum)

- mature works, solid in composition. She joined the World of Art society in 1911, but differed from the other members of the group in her love for simple subjects, harmony, plasticity and generalizations in her paintings.

Self-portrait. Pierrot 1911
In 1914-1917, the work of Zinaida Serebryakova experienced a period of prosperity. During these years, she painted a series of paintings on the themes of folk life, peasant work and the Russian village, which was so close to her heart: “Peasants” (1914-1915, Russian Museum).

The most important of these works was “Whitening the Canvas” (1917, State Tretyakov Gallery). The figures of peasant women, captured against the sky, acquire monumentality, emphasized by the low horizon line.

They are all written powerfully, richly, very colorfully. This is the anthem of life.
In 1916, Alexander Benois received an order to paint the Kazansky railway station (*) in Moscow; he invited Evgeny Lanceray, Boris Kustodiev, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and Zinaida Serebryakov to take part in the work. Serebryakova took the theme of the East: India, Japan, Turkey and Siam are allegorically represented as beauties. At the same time, she is working on a large painting on themes of Slavic mythology, which remains unfinished.

Zinaida met the October Revolution in her native estate Neskuchnoye. Her life suddenly changed.
In 1919, great grief happened to the family - her husband, Boris, died of typhus. At the age of 35, she is left alone with four children and a sick mother without any means of support. Here I cannot help but note that her mother was also left alone with the children at about this age, and both of them, monogamous, continued to be faithful until death to their deceased husbands, who left them so early at such a young age.

Portrait of B.A. Serebryakov. 1908
Hunger. Neskuchny's reserves were plundered. There are no oil paints - you have to switch to charcoal and pencil. At this time, she draws her most tragic work - House of Cards, showing all four orphaned children.

She refuses to switch to the futuristic style popular with the Soviets or to draw portraits of commissars, but finds work at the Kharkov Archaeological Museum, where she makes pencil sketches of exhibits. In December 1920, Zinaida moved to Petrograd to her grandfather's apartment. They really only had three rooms left. But fortunately they were filled with relatives and friends.
Daughter Tatyana started studying ballet. Zinaida and her daughter visit the Mariinsky Theater and go behind the scenes. In the theater, the artist constantly painted. Creative communication with ballerinas over three years was reflected in an amazing series of ballet portraits and compositions.

Ballet restroom. Snowflakes

Portrait of ballerina L.A. Ivanova, 1922.

Katya in a fancy dress at the Christmas tree.


In the same house, on another floor, Alexander Nikolaevich lived with his family, and Zina paints a wonderful portrait of his daughter-in-law with her grandson

Portrait of A.A. Cherkesova-Benoit with her son Alexander.
In the first years after the revolution, lively exhibition activity began in the country. Serebryakova took part in several exhibitions in Petrograd. And in 1924, she became an exhibitor at a large exhibition of Russian fine art in America, which was organized with the aim of providing financial assistance to artists. Of the 14 works presented by Zinaida Evgenievna, two were sold immediately. Using the proceeds, she, burdened with worries about her family, decides to travel abroad to organize an exhibition and receive orders. Alexander Nikolaevich Benois advised her to go to France, hoping that her art would be in demand abroad and she would be able to improve her financial situation. At the beginning of September 1924, Serebryakova left for Paris with her two children, Sasha and Katya, who were fond of painting. She left her mother with Tanya, who was fond of ballet, and Zhenya, who decided to become an architect, in Leningrad, hoping to earn money in Paris and return to them.
In the first years of her life in Paris, Zinaida Evgenievna experiences great difficulties: there is not enough money even for necessary expenses. Konstantin Somov, who helped her receive orders for portraits, writes about her situation: “There are no orders. There is poverty at home... Zina sends almost everything home... She is impractical, makes many portraits for nothing for the promise of advertising her, but all the while receiving wonderful things, she is forgotten..."
In Paris, Serebryakova lives alone, goes nowhere except museums, and really misses her children. All the years of emigration, Zinaida Evgenievna writes tender letters to her children and mother, who always spiritually supported her. She lived at this time on a Nansen passport and only in 1947 received French citizenship.

Tanya and Katya. girls at the piano 1922.

self-portrait with daughters 1921.

Zhenya 1907

Zhenya 1909
Zinaida travels a lot. In 1928 and 1930 he travels to Africa and visits Morocco. The nature of Africa amazes her, she draws the Atlas Mountains, Arab women, Africans in bright turbans. She also paints a series of paintings dedicated to the fishermen of Brittany.

Marrakesh. Walls and Towers of the city.


Moroccan woman in a pink dress.

Marokesh. Pensive man.

During the Khrushchev Thaw, contacts with Serebryakova were allowed. In 1960, after 36 years of separation, her daughter Tatyana (Tata), who became a theater artist at the Moscow Art Theater, visited her. In 1966, large exhibitions of Serebryakova's works were shown in Moscow, Leningrad and Kyiv. Suddenly she becomes popular in Russia, her albums are printed in millions of copies, and her paintings are compared to Botticelli and Renoir. The children called her to return to Russia. However, Serebryakova finds it inappropriate to burden children and loved ones with worries about themselves at such an advanced age (80 years old). In addition, she understands that she will no longer be able to work fruitfully in her homeland, where her best works were created.
On September 19, 1967, Zinaida Serebryakova died in Paris at the age of 82. She was buried in the cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois.
Serebryakova's children are Evgeny Borisovich Serebryakov (1906-1991), Alexander Borisovich Serebryakov (1907-1995), Tatyana Borisovna Serebryakova (1912-1989), Ekaterina Borisovna Serebryakova (1913- ____).

In October 2007, the Russian Museum hosted a personal exhibition “Zinaida Serebryakova. Nudes"
For me, this is a completely separate topic in her work. She writes and draws the naked female body so powerfully and sensually, in a completely unfeminine way. I don't know another woman artist like her.
One of her most famous from this series:

Bathhouse.

"Bath". 1926

Reclining nude.

And now we just admire her paintings:

Still life with a jug.

Self-portrait.

Self-portrait with scarf 1911.

Serebryakov Boris Anatolievich.

Lansere Olga Konstantivna.

In the kitchen. Portrait of Katya.

Portrait of S.R. Ernst. 1921

Self-portrait with a brush, 1924.

Old lady in a cap. Brittany

Self-Portrait (1922).

Self-Portrait (1946).

Benois Alexander Nikolaevich (1924).

Balanchine George (in costume as Bacchus, 1922).

Benois-Clément Elena Alexandrovna (Elena Braslavskaya, 1934).

Lola Braz (1910).

Scenery. The village of Neskuchnoye, Kursk province.

Paris. Luxembourg Garden.

Menton. View of the city from the harbor.

Menton. Velan Ida (portrait of a lady with a dog, 1926).

HER. Lancer in a hat 1915.

Lifar Sergey Mikhailovich (1961).

Lukomskaya S.A. (1948).

Well, many of you see this all the time

(girl with a candle, self-portrait, 1911).
Also tell me that you don’t know such an artist. After all, every day our Zina reminds us of her :)):)
And finally

Yusupov Felix Feliksovich (prince, 1925).

Yusupova Irina Alexandrovna (princess, 1925).

 


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