Lot n° 157
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SEREBRIAKOVA Zénaïde Evgenievna (1884-1967). - Lot 157
SEREBRIAKOVA Zénaïde Evgenievna (1884-1967).
Still life with fruit basket.
Oil on canvas signed lower right in Latin letters "Z.
Serebriakova", dated 1935, preserved in its original carved wood frame with molded and gilded bench.
Age wear to the frame, but overall good condition.
Sight: H.: 58.5 cm - W.: 71.5 cm.
Frame: H.: 74.5 cm - W.: 87.5 cm.
Provenance :
French private collection.
Mac Dougall's sale, London, December 3, 2009, under lot no. 222.
Michel Arlon Collection.
Reference: our work is to be compared with a similar painting by the artist in its composition, produced in 1934 and exhibited in Saint Petersburg in 2004.
See reproduction in the exhibition catalog. (V. Kruglov Zenaid
Serebriakova, Zolotoi Vek, Saint Petersburg, 2004, plate 136).
Biography: born in 1884 on the Neskoutchnoié estate near Kharkov, she was the daughter of the famous sculptor Evgeni Lanceray, and her mother, Ekaterina Benois, was the sister of the painter Alexander Benois. She studied at the school of Princess Maria
Tenisheva (1901-1902), with Ilya Repine, at Osip Braz's studio (1903-1905) and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris (1905-1906) during her trip to France, which took her to Italy. In 1910, she participated for the first time in the "Contemporary Female Portrait" exhibition and in the seventh exhibition of the Union of Russian Painters. In 1915-1916, she worked on sketches for murals for the Kazan railway station (with Alexandre Benois and Eugène
Lanceray). In 1921-24, she produced a series of drawings and portraits of dancers at the Mariinsky Theater. She left Russia in 1924. In 1928, a solo exhibition of her work was organized at Bernheim and Galerie V. Hirschman gallery.
Travels to Germany (Berlin), Belgium (Bruges 1927), Morocco (1928), Italy
Italy (1929), where she painted portraits and landscapes. In 1930-31, she traveled to the South of France (Collioure, Menton) and Belgium, where she exhibited in Antwerp and Brussels with D. Dirschman.
Antwerp and Brussels with D. Bouchène; in 1932 in Italy (Florence, Assisi) and a fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Charpentier (the first had been held in 1927). In 1938, trips to England (London), Corsica and
Corsica and Switzerland, where she painted landscapes, still lifes and portraits.
She died in Paris. She is buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois cemetery beside her son Alexandre.
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