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Lot Essay
One of the most well-known Russian female painters, Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova (1884-1967) was born probably into the most artistic Russian families. Her father, Yevgenii Lanceray, was a well-known sculptor and her mother came from the famous Benois family. The family was so artistic that no one was surprised by the girl's talent and her desire to become an artist. She studied at the Art School headed by Ilya Repin, then at Osip Braz's Studio and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.
Serebriakova's early works already showed her own style and interests, which were influenced by the Classics such as Tintoretto, Poussin and chastity of Venetsianov's peasants and saw the inseparable link between these traits and Russian nature. She painted numerous portraits of women, which poeticized the beauty of their outer appearance as well as the and intimacy of their inner world.
Serebriakova belonged to the group of 'World of Art' leaders who, to various degrees, were followers of Neoclassicism in art, searching for proportions and strict plastic forms, allowing her to endow her far from perfect models with idealistic features, while at the same time preserving the sensation of the life-likeness of the depicted scene.
Serebriakova's early works already showed her own style and interests, which were influenced by the Classics such as Tintoretto, Poussin and chastity of Venetsianov's peasants and saw the inseparable link between these traits and Russian nature. She painted numerous portraits of women, which poeticized the beauty of their outer appearance as well as the and intimacy of their inner world.
Serebriakova belonged to the group of 'World of Art' leaders who, to various degrees, were followers of Neoclassicism in art, searching for proportions and strict plastic forms, allowing her to endow her far from perfect models with idealistic features, while at the same time preserving the sensation of the life-likeness of the depicted scene.