TopImpressionists.com

+1 (707) 877 4321

+33 (977) 198 888

Buy 3 paintings and get 15% + 15% off on all items

15% off on all cart items, sitewide! Valid today:06/07/2022

FREE Shipping. FREE Returns All the time. See details.

ZinaidaSerebriakova

Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (Russian: Зинаи́да Евге́ньевна Серебряко́ва; Ukrainian: Зінаї́да Євге́нівна Серебряко́ва, 12 December 1884 – 19 September 1967) was a Russian (later French) painter.
Zinaida Serebriakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) into one of the most refined and artistic families in the Russian Empire.
She belonged to the artistic Benois family. Her grandfather, Nicholas Benois, was a famous architect, chairman of the Society of Architects and member of the Russian Academy of Science. Her uncle, Alexandre Benois, was a famous painter, founder of the Mir iskusstva art group. Her father, Yevgeny Nikolayevich Lanceray (Wikidata), was a well-known sculptor, and her mother, who was Alexandre Benois' sister, had a talent for drawing. One of Zinaida's brothers, Nikolay Lanceray, was a talented architect, and her other brother, Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lanceray, had an important place in Russian and Soviet art as a master of monumental painting and graphic art. The Russian-English actor and writer Peter Ustinov was also related to her.
In 1900 she graduated from a women's gymnasium (equivalent to grammar school or high school), and entered the art school founded by Princess Maria Tenisheva. She studied under Repin in 1901, and under portrait artist Osip Braz between 1903 and 1905. In 1902–1903 she spent time in Italy, and from 1905 to 1906 she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.
In 1905, Zinaida Lanceray married her first cousin, Boris Serebriakov, the son of Evgenyi's sister, and took his surname. Serebriakova went on to become a railroad engineer.
From her youth onwards, Zinaida Serebriakova strove to express her love of the world and to show its beauty. Her earliest works, Country Girl (1906, Russian Museum) and Orchard in Bloom (1908, private collection), speak eloquently of this search, and of her acute awareness of the beauty of the Russian land and its people. These works are études done from nature, and though she was young at the time, her extraordinary talent, confidence and boldness were apparent.
Broad public recognition came with Serebriakova's self-portrait At the Dressing-Table (1909, Tretyakov Gallery), first shown at a large exhibition mounted by the Union of Russian Artists in 1910. The self-portrait was followed by Girl Bathing (1911, Russian Museum), a portrait of Ye.K. Lanceray (1911, private collection), and a portrait of the artist's mother Yekaterina Lanceray (1912, Russian Museum), already mature works, strict in composition.
She joined the Mir iskusstva movement in 1911, but stood out from the other members of the group because of her preference for popular themes and because of the harmony, plasticity and generalized nature of her paintings.
In 1914–1917, Zinaida Serebriakova was in her prime. During these years she produced a series of pictures on the theme of Russian rural life, the work of the peasants and the Russian countryside which was so dear to her heart: Peasants (1914–1915, Russian Museum), Sleeping Peasant Girl (private collection).
The most important of these works was Bleaching Cloth (1917, Tretyakov Gallery), which revealed Zinaida Serebriakova's striking talent as a monumental artist. The figures of the peasant women, portrayed against the background of the sky, gain majesty and power by virtue of the low horizon.
When in 1916 Alexander Benois was commissioned to decorate the Kazan Railway Station in Moscow, he invited Yevgeny Lanceray, Boris Kustodiev, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and Zinaida Serebriakova to help him. Serebriakova took on the theme of the Orient: India, Japan, Turkey, and Siam are represented allegorically in the form of beautiful women. At the same time she began compositions on subjects from classical mythology, but these remained unfinished.
At the outbreak of the October Revolution in 1917, Serebriakova was at her family estate of Neskuchnoye, and suddenly her whole life changed. In 1919 her husband Boris died of typhus contracted in Bolshevik jails. She was left without any income, responsible for her four children and her sick mother. All the reserves of Neskuchnoye had been plundered, so the family suffered from hunger. She had to give up oil painting in favour of the less expensive techniques of charcoal and pencil. This was the time of her most tragic painting, House of Cards, which depicts her four orphaned children.
She did not want to switch to the futurist style popular in the art of the early Soviet period, nor paint portraits of commissars, but she found some work at the Kharkov Archaeological Museum, where she made pencil drawings of the exhibits. In December 1920 she moved to her grandfather’s apartment in Petrograd. After the October Revolution, inhabitants of private apartments were forced to share them with additional inhabitants, but Serebriakova was lucky - she was quartered with artists from the Moscow Art Theatre. Thus, Serebriakova's work during this period focuses on theatre life. Also around this time, Serebriakova's daughter, Tatiana, entered the academy of ballet, and Serebriakova created a series of pastels on the Mariinsky Theater.

More...

On the beach

Self-portrait wearing a scarf

Bathing

Pierrot (Self portrait in the costume of Pierrot)

Reclining Nude

House of cards

Still life with asparagus and strawberries

Thoughtful men in blue. Marrakesh

Portrait S.N.Andronikovoy Halpern

Portrait of Boris Serebryakov

Nude

Portrait of the composer's daughter, EF Napravnik

The Countess of Saint Hippolyte

Reclining Nude

Maria Butakova nee Evreinova

Nude Girl

Sandra Loris Melikov

Moroccan girl. Marrakesh

Orchard in bloom. Neskuchnoye

The Bathhouse

Portrait of A.I. Kunina

Portrait of V. M. Dukelsky

Peasant Girl

Portrait of architect A. J. Beloborodov

Katya at the kitchen table

Girl with a candle. Self portrait

Prince Felix Yusupov

Princess Irina Yusupov

Basket with melons and squash

Tata and Katia in the mirror

Portrait of a ballerina E.A. Svekis

Resting dancer

Portrait of a Lady I. Whelan with a Lapdog

Portrait of A.A.Cherkesovoy-Benoit

Moloduha (Maria Zhegulina)

Breton

Sleeping nude

Peasant Woman with pots

Bath

Portrait of Yekaterina Heidenreich in Red

Green autumn

Bathing Nude

Portrait of daughter Katya

Sleeping nude

Still life attributes of art

Lake in Tsarskoe Selo

Neskuchnoye. Calf house.

Window

Versailles. The roofs of the city

Pears on the branches

Still Life with Attributes of the Arts

Nude with a candle. France

Portrait of a nurse

Orchard

Summer

Nude

Reclining Nude

Nude naturschitsa

Portrait of Eugene Serebryakov

Collioure. Street with the palm

Portrait of K. Lancere

Still Life with Vegetables

Portrait of Lola Braz

The Popoffs' doll, teddy bear and toy elephant

Morocco. Figure in the doorway

Portrait of Boris Serebryakov

In ballet dressing room

Portrait of the artist's daughter

Nude with Book

Portrait of Bertha Popoff in a red shawl

Put on one's shoes farmer

Braids

Attacked a goat gray wolves

Ballerinas in the dressing room

Girls Sylphides (Ballet Chopiniana)

Two dancers

In the nursery. Neskuchnoye

The Bridge at Gatchina (Karpin pond)

Sleeping Katya

Reclining Nude

Portrait of Andronikova-Halpern

Portrait of E.I. Zolotarevskii in childhood

Moor

Nymph Flora

Self-portrait

Standing Nude

Fruit piece

In the meadow

Nude

Sleeping nude

Portrait of E.M. Edwards

Autumn Landscape

Moroccan woman in white

Terrace in Collioure

The Model, based on elbow

Nude

Sleeping Nude with a red shawl

Tata in dance costume

Nude

Boys in sailor's striped vests

Katya still life

In the dressing room

Portrait of Alexander Benois

Water carrier. Morocco

Morocco. Marrakesh

Portrait of Sergei P. Ivanov

Portrait of R. Ernst

Alps. Village in the Savoie

Cassis. A peasant woman with basket

Nude. Sketch

Katya in blue dress by christmas tree

Self-portrait with a brush

Portrait of Marietta Frangopulo

Basket with grapes on the window

Portrait of a young fisherman

Self-portrait

Country kitchen around Budzhiano

Moroccan in blue

Nurse with baby

Poultry yard

Village Neskuchnoye Kursk Province

Tata with vegetables

Brittany. Pont L Abbe

Diana and Actaeon

Whitening canvas

Portrait of a young Woman

Thes. Morocco

Still Life with Apples and a round bread

Collioure. Port with boats

Portrait of a young man, Marrakech

Bobrinsky Palace in Petrograd

View over the rooftops. France

Annecy

Bather

Portrait of Katya

Portrait of G.I. Chulkov

At breakfast

Ballet dancers in their dressing room

Self-portrait in red

Merchant vegetables. Nice

Winter wheat

Portrait of Vera Fokine

Portrait of E.A. Cooper

A young woman in a white headdress

Cassis. The roofs of the city

Street in Marrakech

The Jewish girl from Sefrou

Marrakech. The walls and towers of the city

Portrait of a nurse

Landscape

Apples on the branches

Study for painting ''Canvas whitening''

Ballet washroom

Portrait of N. Geydenreyh in Blue

Portrait of Ivanov in a suit Spaniard

Still Life with Grapes

Apple tree

Breton

Before the Storm (Village Neskuchnoye)

Portrait of a ballerina L.A. Ivanova

Self-portrait

Basket of Apples

Paris. Luxembourg Gardens

The fish on the green

Self-portrait (8)

Girls at the piano

Trees in the Crimea

Market. Marrakesh

Orchard

Elena Braslavskaya

Reclining Nude

Moroccan woman wearing a pink dress

Harvest

Menton. Beach with umbrellas

Dreaming nude

Nymph Justice

Portrait of a student

Marrakesh

Market with their camels. Marrakesh

Portrait of E.I. Finogenova

Portrait of a ballerina L.A. Ivanova

Portrait of Boris Serebryakov

Seated Nude

Siam

Eugene (Portrait of the artist's son)

Menton. View from the harbor of the city

Odalisque

Girl with tie

Collioure. Katia on the terrace

In ballet dressing room (Big ballerinas)

Portrait of his son Alexander

Turkey (Two odalisques)

Portrait of Aleksandr Petrovich Prokopenko

Auvergne. Town Esteng

Nude

Country Girl

Italian peasant woman in a vineyard

Portrait of a Boy

Portrait of N. Lanceray. Mom

The market in Pont L Abbe

Allegory of Summer

India

A nun of Cassis

Mown field

Bath

Hostess bistro Mon ABBE

Reclining Nude

Portrait of E.M. Eygelya

Cabbage. Village Neskuchnoye

Digging trees in the garden

Portrait of E. Solntseva, sister of artist

Portrait of Prince Vsevolod Obolensky

Portrait of a nurse

Florence

Portrait of S.M. Lifar

Peasants

Alexander Serebryakov, reading a book

Peasant Girl

Nude back

Grapes

Katya

The breadseller from rue Lepic

Portrait of Felicien Qaqaan

In the dressing room ballet (Swan Lake)

Veranda spring

Still life with cauliflower and vegetables

Winter in the royal village. Upper Bath

Peasant

Portrait of Mrs Beilitz

Castellan. Valley

Portrait of a Man

Portrait of E. Shapiro

In the kitchen

Portrait of a young girl. Marrakesh

Portrait of a Man

Winter landscape. Neskuchnoye

Portrait of Aleksandr Serebriakov studying an album

Portrait SA Lukomskaya

Moroccan women

Closet of ballerina Irina Baranova

Family Portrait

Old fisherman

Versailles Park in autumn

Boy musician

So sleep Binka (Eugene Serebryakov)

Resting Negro. Marrakesh

Nude with red scarf

Woman in Blue

Alexander in costume

Collioure

A herd of horses

Fields in Neskuchnoye

Portrait of a Peasant Woman

A basket with flowers

Portrait of Abbe Esten

Portrait of Olga Konstantinovna Lancere

Japan (odalisque)

A portrait of Yvette Choviret

The pride of the housewife

Moroccan in Green

Fruit piece

Portrait of the composer Sergei Prokofiev

Neskuchnoye. Plowing

Madonna and Child

Reclining Nude with cherry mantle

Collioure. Bridge with goats

Two Moroccan

Autumn

Girls. Neskuchnoye

Emerging from the bath

Three figures in the doorway. Marrakesh

Neskuchnoye. Field.

Peasant Woman (with rocker)

Senegalese soldier

Boulevard in Paris

Portrait of M. Benois

Nude

Portrait of Boris Serebryakov

Basket with grapes and peaches

Portrait of K. Lancere

View of the Peter and Paul Fortress

Portrait of A.B. Serebryakov

Harvest

Musicians (Arab and Negro)

Capri

Landscape with a River

Sculpture in the Tuileries

Still life with a jug

Brittany. The town of Pont L Abbe. Port

Portrait of the artist's sister

Animal Farm in the village Neskuchnoye

Portrait of Irina Zakolodkina

Still Life with a Basket of Pears

Alps. Annecy

Portrait of a Peasant I.D. Golubeva

Morocco. Sefrou. The roofs of the city

Portrait of Natasha Lancere with a cat

Churchyard

The old lady in a bonnet. Brittany

Portrait of gentleman

Portrait of R. Ernst

Portrait of Vera Makarova

Brittany. Camara

Portrait of E.K. Lancere

Portrait of E.E. Zelenkova nee Lancere

Narcissus and the nymph Echo. Etude

Portrait of Troinitsky

Nude

Self-portrait in a white blouse

Market in Marrakesh

Gatchina. Interior

Patio

Collioure. A street with arch

Portrait of a young Moroccan

Self-portrait

Shopping cart with sardines

Collioure. Kind of fortress

The Cameron Gallery in Tsarskoe Selo

The Port of Collioure

Portrait of Nadezhda Mikhailovna Kroshkin

Fountain in the Versailles park

Portrait of Geraldine Cobb

In the mountains. Switzerland

Spring in Crimea

Self-portrait

Sleeping Peasant

Katyusha

Sleeping girl in the blue (Katyusha on a blanket)

Fields. Neskuchnoye

Farmer, spread out on canvas

Self-portrait with daughters

Clams and Lemon

Marrakesh

Girl in Pink

Tata portrait in the costume of Harlequin

Snowflakes

Mother and daughter

Camels

The Luxembourg gardens

On the terrace in Kharkov

Portrait of O.I. Rybakova in childhood

England

In the studio Braz.France

Two Peasant Girls

Florence. Ponte Vecchio

Portrait Z.N. Martynovskaya

Autumn Landscape

Anna Akhmatova

Portrait of Mr. Cobb

In the studio. Paris

Arab on a donkey

Swiss landscape near Geneva

Mountain landscape. Switzerland

Family Portrait

Portrait of Madame V.

Square in Marrakesh

A Portrait of Graf Platon Zubov

Terrace

Peasant woman

Brittany. Beach at Mosquito

Self-portrait

Portrait of S.M. Lukomskaya

Autumn Landscape

Portrait of Boris Serebryakov

Portrait of the Artist D. Bushena

Self-portrait

Pond in Tsarskoe Selo

Girl with a Doll

Portrait of a ballerina Muriel Belmondo

Portrait of Sergei Rostislavovich Ernst

Brittany. Leskonil

Dancer

Portrait of a Woman

Spruce

Four female figures

Self-portrait

Levi Alexander Benois de Stetto

Lake Geneva

A peasant woman with a child

Study for a female portrait

Portrait of G. I. Teslenko

Self-Portrait