Daughter of Zinaida Serebriakova. Zinaida Serebryakova. Hereditary talent and strength of character. It is known that with the money received for its sale, the artist went to France, from where she never returned.

Serebryakova Z. E.

Zinaida Lansere, by Serebryakov’s husband, was born near Kharkov. She was destined to give birth to four children, become a widow, change from Kharkov to Petrograd, and then to Paris and there settle down in the cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois.

She was born and raised in a family where more than one generation worshiped art. Great-great-grandfather Caterino Cavos - originally from Italy, musician, author of operas and symphonies; great-grandfather, Albert Kavos - architect; grandfather - Nikolai Benois - architect, academician. Zinaida's father is the famous sculptor Nikolai Lanceray.

After the death of her father, Zina lived with her grandfather, Nikolai Benois, where a creative atmosphere reigned, and the very atmosphere of the house was permeated with the spirit of art. The dining room was decorated with paintings painted by her mother, a student at the Academy of Arts. The rooms contained antique furniture made by ancient masters. Famous people gathered in the house: Bakst, Somov, Diaghilev and others.

Zina herself loved to draw since childhood. She never thoroughly studied drawing anywhere: only two months at a private drawing school under the direction of I. Repin, and studied for two years in the workshop of O. E. Braz. But she knew how to learn, to absorb everything useful, and already at the age of 17 she easily learned to work with watercolors in two or three colors, to achieve purity and beauty of tone.

For health reasons, in 1901 she was taken to Italy, where she enthusiastically and extensively painted mountain landscapes with rich vegetation, the sea with coastal stones, narrow, sun-drenched streets, houses, and room interiors.

In 1905, Zina married railway engineer Serebryakov and went with him on a honeymoon to Paris. There she entered a workshop school, where she studied hard and imitated the Impressionists. But besides the streets and houses of Paris, she was interested in the life of the peasants; she sketched cattle, carts, and barns.

Returning to Moscow, Zinaida writes a lot, especially loves to paint portraits. Magazines began to say about her that she had a “big, colorful temperament.” She began to exhibit among already famous painters, and she was noticed. Later, A. Benois wrote about the exhibition of Serebryakova’s works: “...she gave the Russian public such a wonderful gift, such a “smile from ear to ear” that one cannot help but thank her...”

Serebryakova’s paintings were marked by complete spontaneity and simplicity, true artistic temperament, something ringing, young, laughing, sunny and clear. All her works amaze with their vitality and innate skill. And village boys, and students, and rooms, and fields - everything from Serebryakova comes out bright, living its own life and sweet.

Before the First World War, the artist visited Italy and Switzerland, where she painted many landscapes. She returned home in the summer of 1914, where she was greeted by gloomy and confused men's faces, wailing soldiers and roaring girls.

In 1916, Alexander Benois was offered to paint the Kazansky railway station in Moscow, then he invited recognized masters to work - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Boris Kustodiev, and among these chosen ones was Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova.

In 1918, the Neskuchnoye estate, where the Serebryakovs lived, burned down. The family moved to Kharkov. Boris Anatolyevich, Zinaida's husband, contracted typhus in 1919 and died.

The Serebryakovs lived meagerly, sometimes on the verge of poverty. The artist was forced to earn extra money by drawing visual aids. A joyless life dragged on. Then the Serebryakovs moved to St. Petersburg and settled in the empty apartment of their grandfather N.L. Benois. In order to somehow survive, the artist enters the service of a visual aids workshop for a meager salary.

Meanwhile, in 1924, there was an exhibition of Serebryakova in America, at which about 150 paintings were sold. At that time it was a lot of money, especially in the destroyed Land of the Soviets. Alexandre Benois, who settled in Paris with his family, called them to them. Moreover, she received an order for a panel from Paris. What will a mother of four children living in the “restricted” Soviet Union do? Will he leave them and rush to France? Or will he still stay with them? In addition to the children, Serebryakova also has a sick mother in her arms. Means of livelihood - zero.

Serebryakova decided to go. Biographers claim: “Subsequently she repented and wanted to return to Russia, even to the USSR. But she failed.” But why didn't it work? Or did you still not want to? For example, Marina Tsvetaeva succeeded. Zinaida Serebryakova - no. Although her older brother, Evgeniy Lanceray, a Soviet professor, came to visit her in France. He worked in Tbilisi and was sent to Paris by decision of the People's Commissariat of Education of Georgia. They managed to send two children to her in France, two more remained in Russia - Serebryakova would see one of her daughters only 36 years later, during the Khrushchev Thaw.

France did not bring Serebryakova happiness. There was little money, she lived an almost poverty-stricken life. I sent pennies to the children. And she very much regretted her decision to leave Russia. And the creativity of the period of emigration was not so bright, splashing with colors, temperament. All the best is left at home.

Winter in Tsarskoe Selo (1911)

Whitening canvas (1916-17)

Behind the toilet. Self-portrait (1908-1909)

Self-portrait in a white blouse (1922)

Self-Portrait in Pierrot Costume (1911)

Bath

Brittany, Pont-l Abbe (1934)

Countess St. Hippolyte, née Princess Trubetskoy (1942)

Katya with dolls (1923)

Basket of flowers

Bather (1911)

The Nun of Cassis (1928)

Switzerland

On the terrace in Kharkov (1919)

Still Life with Vegetables (1936)

Not boring. Fields (1912)

Nanny (1908-1909)

Peasant Woman Putting on Shoes (1915)

Sunlit (1928)

Beach

Portrait of A. A. Cherkesova-Benoit (1938)

Portrait of Serebryakov. (1922)

Portrait of ballerina L.A. Ivanova. (1922)

Portrait of E. N. Heidenreich in blue

Portrait of Natasha Lansere with a cat (1924)

Portrait of O. I. Rybakova as a child (1923)

Portrait of Olga Konstantinovna Lanceray (1910)

Portrait on blue

Poultry Yard (1910)

Market at Pont-l Abbe (1934)

Snowflakes (1923)

Sleeping girl on blue (Katyusha on a blanket) 1923

Sleeping peasant woman

Tata and Katya

Terrace in Collioure

At Lunch (1914)

Girl with a candle. Self-portrait (fragment)

Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova had a difficult fate, which included great love, the happiness of motherhood, the joy of creating, many years of separation from her children, and longing for her abandoned homeland.

Artist Zinaida Serebryakova. Life and art

The future artist Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova (nee Lanseray) was born on December 10, 1884 in the Neskuchny estate near Kharkov, in the family of the famous sculptor Evgeniy Lanseray and Ekaterina Lanseray (nee Benois).

In 1886, the artist’s father died suddenly and the large family settled in the apartment of Nikolai Benois’s grandfather, a famous architect.

Zinaida's mother was a graphic artist in her youth. And there were two famous uncles: the architect Leonty Benois and the artist Alexander Benois.

In the family of Evgeniy and Ekaterina Lansere, in addition to Zinaida, two more children grew up: Nikolai (later a famous architect) and Evgeniy (later a famous artist).

Zina grew up... as a sickly and rather unsociable child, in which she resembled her father and did not at all resemble her mother or her brothers and sisters, who were all distinguished by their cheerful and sociable disposition.

From the memoirs of Alexandre Benois

The future artist spent her childhood and youth in St. Petersburg, and in her beloved estate “Neskuchny”. The girl began to draw early and her uncle Alexander Benois worked with her talented niece a lot.

One of the first paintings by Zinaida Serebryakova is “Apple Tree”. This picture was painted in 1900 in Neskuchny. A young, strong, perky tree bends its branches under the weight of ruddy fruits. Many years later, art critics will say that young Zinaida, subconsciously, depicted a symbol of fertility, free life in unity with nature. And this symbol determined the artist’s entire creative path for the rest of his life.

...On our Neskuchny estate, where everything, both nature and the peasant life around me, excited and delighted me with their picturesqueness, and I generally lived in a kind of “child of enthusiasm”...

Zinaida Evgenievna graduated from a women's gymnasium in 1900 and without much effort entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Painting. However, the girl did not like studying at the Academy, and very soon the future artist left the walls of the Academy and entered the art school of Princess M.K. Tenisheva, and some time later began taking painting lessons from the famous portrait painter Osip Braz.

In 1902, the girl was sent to Italy for treatment and to study Italian painting.

Now it’s difficult to say how sick Zinaida Evgenievna was... The thing is that the future famous artist had a cousin, Boris Serebryakov. The young people were friends for a long time, became friends and fell in love with each other. The relatives knew about this connection, in the end they resigned themselves to the inevitable and stopped interfering with the lovers.

In the end, all the relatives agreed to this marriage, but the church was against the wedding of close relatives. The issue was resolved with the help of a “gift” of 300 rubles - the priest married the young people and the Serebryakov family (Zinaida Evgenievna took her husband’s surname) left for Paris in 1905.

In the capital of France, Zinaida enters the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere and studies with great enthusiasm, draws a lot from life, and writes sketches.

In 1906, the young family returned to St. Petersburg. The young spouse needs to graduate from university (he will become a railway engineer), and the time has come for the young wife to give birth to their first child.

In 1906, a son, Evgeniy, was born, and in 1907, a son, Alexander.

The family lives in Neskuchny, Zinaida takes care of small children and writes a lot: sketches, landscapes and portraits. And he decides to exhibit his works at the 7th exhibition of artists in Moscow in 1910.

The self-portrait “Behind the Toilet” and the gouache “Greenery in Autumn” are acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery. It was an undoubted and very resounding success.

Behind the toilet

I decided to stay with the children in Neskuchny... My husband Boris Anatolyevich was on a business trip, winter came early this year, everything was covered in snow - our garden, the fields around, there were snowdrifts everywhere, it was impossible to go out. But the house on the farm is warm and cozy, and I began to draw myself in the mirror...

From the memoirs of Zinaida Serebryakova

Then there was a short, but very happy, break in creative activity: in 1912, daughter Tatyana was born, and a year later - Ekaterina.

From 1914 to 1917, he created a whole series of paintings about Russian nature and the Russian village (“Peasants”, “Sleeping Peasant Woman”, the famous “Whitening the Canvas”), helped his brother Alexander paint the Kazan Station, painted compositions based on ancient myths and a whole series of self-portraits.

It always seemed to me that being loved and being in love was happiness, I was always in a daze, not noticing the life around me, and I was happy, although even then I knew sadness and tears... You are so young, loved, appreciate this time , dear friend.

Letter from Zinaida Serebryakova to Galina Teslenko. Petrograd, February 28, 1922 =

And then the revolution broke out, and after the revolution came the civil war. Zinaida Evgenievna and her children moved to Kharkov, where a job was found for her in the archaeological museum. The family estate near Kharkov “Neskuchnoe” burned down along with all the artist’s paintings. The husband went to Siberia to work, fell ill with typhus and died.

With a sick mother and four small children in her arms, without a means of livelihood, without permanent housing. It was at this time that one of the artist’s most tragic paintings, “House of Cards,” appeared. There are simply no oil paints and she writes with pencil and charcoal.

The house of cards is her happiness, which suddenly collapsed, her four orphaned children. And their unfortunate, exhausted mother.

In 1920, the Serebryakov family returned to St. Petersburg, to the apartment of grandfather Nikolai Benois. Here, for the first time in recent years, luck smiled on the destitute family - Moscow Art Theater artists, and not Soviet workers, were moved into a large apartment “to consolidate.”

Zinaida begins to write again. She paints several portraits of her late husband (they are now kept in the Tretyakov Gallery and the Novosibirsk Art Gallery), writes a whole series of works about the theater. It so happened that Zinaida Evgenievna’s daughter began to study ballet and the artist and her daughters often visit the Mariinsky Theater.

Hard times of hunger are giving way to some revival - exhibition activities are being revived. Serebryakova again worked a lot and in 1924 became a participant in a large exhibition of Russian artists in America. All her paintings were sold, but the $500 received for the paintings was catastrophically insufficient for the life of a large family in Soviet Russia, and the inspired Serebryakova decided to go to Paris, arrange a personal exhibition there and earn more money.

This is the official version. Or maybe she believed in her success and wanted simple prosperity and international recognition? This is already my version.

However, in Paris, even without Serebryakova, there are a huge number of Russian artists, and Paris is fickle and spoiled by a simply incredible offer of paintings at very reasonable prices. In addition, Zinaida Evgenievna completely lacked a commercial streak.

Subsequently, Konstantin Somov said:

She is so pathetic, unhappy, inept, everyone offends her.

Serebryakova's first exhibition in Paris took place only in 1927.

Zinaida Evgenievna sends all the money she earned in Paris to St. Petersburg to support her family. She herself lives in France as a bird (with a refugee passport. She received French citizenship only in 1947).

Life now seems to me like meaningless vanity and lies - everyone’s brains are now very clogged, and now there is nothing sacred in the world, everything is ruined, debunked, trampled into the dirt.

Why didn't she return to Russia? Why didn’t you move your family to France? Difficult questions that I definitely cannot answer.

A few years later, daughter Katya comes to France, and then son Alexander. And immigration from the Soviet Union stops. Zinaida Evgenievna will see her daughter Tatyana only 36 years later with the onset of the Khrushchev Thaw.

In 1961, two Soviet artists arrived in Paris - D. Shmarinov and S. Gerasimov. It was they who helped organize exhibitions of Serebryakova’s paintings in Moscow, Leningrad and Kyiv in 1966. Albums with her works sell millions of copies around the world.

The much-desired fame finally comes to her, and this fame comes from abandoned Russia - after the exhibition in the USSR, a real hunt begins all over the world for the artist’s paintings. Serebryakova is compared to Renoir and Botticelli.

She never managed to gain the independence and financial well-being that she had been striving for all her life.
But international fame remained.

Today her paintings are sold not just “for high prices”. In 2015, the painting “Sleeping Girl” was sold at auction for $5.9 million.
Life is terribly unfair. Or is it fair? I have no answer.

Paintings by artist Zinaida Serebryakova

Sleeping peasant woman

Whitening canvas

In the ballet dressing room ("Big Ballerinas")

Sleeping model

At breakfast

Portrait of B.A. Serebryakova

Resting black woman

Reclining Moroccan woman

Portrait of Vera Fokina

Sleeping girl

Nude

House of cards

Greenery in autumn

Behind the toilet. Self-portrait

Sunlit

Self-portrait dressed as Pierrot

Portrait of Olga Konstantinovna Lanceray

Bather

Girl with a candle. Self-portrait

Nurse with child

Ballet restroom. Snowflakes

Self-portrait with daughters

Katya with dolls

Serebryakova Katya in a blue dress near the Christmas tree

Katya with still life

Portrait of A.D. Danilova

Portrait of V.K. Ivanova in a Spanish costume

Son Alexander in a carnival costume

Zinaida Serebryakova, a Russian artist who became famous at the beginning of the 20th century for her self-portrait, lived a long and eventful life, most of which was spent in exile in Paris. Now, in connection with the holding of a huge exhibition of her works at the Tretyakov Gallery, I would like to remember and talk about her difficult life, about the ups and downs, about the fate of her family.

Zinaida Serebryakova: biography, first successes in painting

She was born in 1884 into the famous artistic Benois-Lanceret family, which became famous for several generations of sculptors, painters, architects and composers. Her childhood was spent in a wonderful creative atmosphere surrounded by a large family that surrounded her with tenderness and care.

The family lived in St. Petersburg, and in the summer they always moved to the Neskuchnoye estate near Kharkov. Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova studied painting privately, first with Princess Tenishcheva in St. Petersburg, then with the portraitist O. Braz. She later continued her education in Italy and France.

Upon returning from Paris, the artist joined the World of Art society, which united artists of those times, later called the era of the Silver Age. Her first success came in 1910, after showing her self-portrait “At the Toilet” (1909), which was immediately purchased by P. Tretyakov for the gallery.

The painting depicts a beautiful young woman standing in front of a mirror, doing her morning toilet. Her eyes look welcomingly at the viewer, women's little things are laid out on the table nearby: bottles of perfume, a box, beads, and an unlit candle. In this work, the artist’s face and eyes are still full of joyful youth and sunshine, expressing a bright, emotional, life-affirming mood.

Marriage and children

She spent her entire childhood and youth with her chosen one, constantly communicating both in Neskuchny and in St. Petersburg with the family of her relatives, the Serebryakovs. Boris Serebryakov was her cousin, they loved each other since childhood and dreamed of getting married. However, this did not work out for a long time due to the church’s disagreement with consanguineous marriages. And only in 1905, after an agreement with the local priest (for 300 rubles), the relatives were able to arrange a wedding for them.

The newlyweds had completely opposite interests: Boris was preparing to become a railway engineer, loved risk and even went to practice in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War, and Zinaida Serebryakova was fond of painting. However, they had a very tender and strong love relationship, bright plans for their future life together.

Their life together began a year long, where the artist continued to study painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere, and Boris studied at the Higher School of Bridges and Roads.

Returning to Neskuchnoye, the artist is actively working on landscapes and portraits, and Boris continues his studies at the Institute of Railways and takes care of the house. They had four children of the same age: first two sons, then two daughters. During these years, many works were dedicated to her children, which reflect all the joys of motherhood and the growing up of children.

The famous painting “At Breakfast” depicts a family feast in a house where love and happiness live, depicts children at the table, surrounding household little things. The artist also paints portraits of herself and her husband, sketches of economic life in Neskuchny, paints local peasant women in the works “Whitening the Canvas”, “Harvest”, etc. Local residents loved the Serebryakov family very much, respected them for their ability to manage a household and therefore gladly posed for paintings female artists.

Revolution and famine

The revolutionary events of 1917 reached Neskuchny, bringing fire and disaster. The Serebryakov estate was burned down by the “fighters of the revolution,” but the artist herself and her children managed to leave it with the help of local peasants, who warned her and even gave her several bags of wheat and carrots for the road. The Serebryakovs move to Kharkov to live with their grandmother. During these months, Boris worked as a road specialist, first in Siberia, then in Moscow.

Not receiving any news from her husband, and very worried about him, Zinaida Serebryakova goes to look for him, leaving the children with her mother. However, after their reunion on the road, Boris contracted typhus and died in the arms of his loving wife. Zinaida is left alone with 4 children and an elderly mother in hungry Kharkov. She works part-time at an archaeological museum, making sketches of prehistoric skulls and using the money to buy food for her children.

Tragic "House of Cards"

The painting “House of Cards” by Zinaida Serebryakova was painted a few months after the death of her husband Boris, when the artist lived from hand to mouth with her children and her mother in Kharkov, and became the most tragic among her works. Serebryakova herself perceived the title of the painting as a metaphor for her own life.

It was painted with oil paints, which were the latest in that period, because... All the money was spent to prevent the family from dying of hunger. Life fell apart like a house of cards. And the artist had no prospects ahead in her creative and personal life; the main thing at that time was to save and feed her children.

Life in Petrograd

There was no money or orders for painting work in Kharkov, so the artist decides to move the whole family to Petrograd, closer to relatives and cultural life. She was invited to work in the Petrograd Department of Museums as a professor at the Academy of Arts, and in December 1920 the whole family was already living in Petrograd. However, she abandoned teaching in order to work in her workshop.

Serebryakova paints portraits, views of Tsarskoye Selo and Gatchina. However, her hopes for a better life were not justified: there was also famine in the Northern capital, and she even had to eat potato peelings.

Rare customers helped Zinaida feed and raise her children; daughter Tanya began studying choreography at the Mariinsky Theater. Young ballerinas constantly came to their house and posed for the artist. This is how a whole series of ballet paintings and compositions were created, which show young sylphs and ballerinas getting dressed to go on stage in a performance.

In 1924, a revival began. Several paintings by Zinaida Serebryakova were sold at an exhibition of Russian art in America. Having received the fee, she decides to go to Paris for a while to earn money to support her large family.

Paris. In exile

Leaving the children with their grandmother in Petrograd, Serebryakova arrived in Paris in September 1924. However, her creative life here was unsuccessful: at first she did not have her own workshop, few orders, she managed to earn very little money, and even that she sent to her family in Russia.

In the biography of the artist Zinaida Serebryakova, life in Paris turned out to be a turning point, after which she could never return to her homeland, and she would see her two children only 36 years later, almost before her death.

The brightest period of life in France is when her daughter Katya comes here, and together they visit small towns in France and Switzerland, making sketches, landscapes, portraits of local peasants (1926).

Trips to Morocco

In 1928, after painting a series of portraits for a Belgian entrepreneur, Zinaida and Ekaterina Serebryakov set off on a trip to Morocco with the money they earned. Struck by the beauty of the East, Serebryakova makes a whole series of sketches and works, drawing eastern streets and local residents.

Returning to Paris, she organized an exhibition of “Moroccan” works, collecting a huge number of rave reviews, but could not earn anything. All her friends noted her impracticality and inability to sell her work.

In 1932, Zinaida Serebryakova again traveled to Morocco, again doing sketches and landscapes there. During these years, her son Alexander, who also became an artist, was able to escape to her. He is engaged in decorative activities, designs interiors, and also makes custom lampshades.

Her two children, having arrived in Paris, help her earn money by actively engaging in various artistic and decorative works.

Children in Russia

The artist’s two children, Evgeny and Tatyana, who remained in Russia with their grandmother, lived very poorly and hungry. Their apartment was compacted, and they occupied only one room, which they had to heat themselves.

In 1933, her mother E.N. Lansere died, unable to withstand hunger and deprivation, the children were left on their own. They have already grown up and have also chosen creative professions: Zhenya became an architect, and Tatyana became a theater artist. Gradually they arranged their lives, created families, but for many years they dreamed of meeting their mother, constantly corresponding with her.

In the 1930s, the Soviet government invited her to return to her homeland, but in those years Serebryakova worked on a private order in Belgium, and then World War II began. After the end of the war, she became very ill and did not dare to move.

Only in 1960 was Tatyana able to come to Paris and see her mother, 36 years after the separation.

Serebryakova exhibitions in Russia

In 1965, during the Thaw years in the Soviet Union, the only lifetime personal exhibition of Zinaida Serebryakova took place in Moscow, then it was held in Kyiv and Leningrad. The artist was 80 years old at that time, and she was unable to come due to her health, but she was immensely happy that she was remembered in her homeland.

The exhibitions were a huge success, reminding everyone of the forgotten great artist who was always devoted to classical art. Serebryakova was able, despite all the turbulent years of the first half of the 20th century, to find her own style. In those years, impressionism and art deco, abstract art and other movements dominated in Europe.

Her children, who lived with her in France, remained devoted to her until the end of her life, arranging her life and helping her financially. They never started their own families and lived with her until her death at the age of 82, after which they organized her exhibitions.

Z. Serebryakova was buried in 1967 at the Saint-Genevieve des Bois cemetery in Paris.

Exhibition in 2017

The exhibition of Zinaida Serebryakova at the Tretyakov Gallery is the largest in the last 30 years (200 paintings and drawings), dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death, and runs from April to the end of July 2017.

The previous retrospective of her work took place in 1986, followed by several projects that showed her work in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and in small private exhibitions.

This time, the curators of the French Fondation Serebriakoff collected a large number of works to make a grandiose exhibition, which during the summer of 2017 will be located on 2 floors of the gallery’s Engineering building.

The retrospective is arranged chronologically, which will allow the viewer to see the various creative lines of the artist Zinaida Serebryakova, starting from the early portraits and ballet works of Mariinsky Theater dancers, which were made in Russia in the 20s. All her paintings are characterized by emotionality and lyricism, a positive feeling of life. In a separate room, works with images of her children are presented.

The next floor contains works created in Paris in exile, including:

Belgian panels commissioned by Baron de Brouwer (1937-1937), which were at one time thought to have been lost during the war;
Moroccan sketches and sketches written in 1928 and 1932;
portraits of Russian emigrants, which were painted in Paris;
landscapes and nature studies of France, Spain, etc.

Afterword

All children of Zinaida Serebryakova continued creative traditions and became artists and architects, working in various genres. Serebriakova’s youngest daughter, Ekaterina, lived a long life; after her mother’s death, she was actively involved in exhibition activities and work at the Fondation Serebriakoff, and died at the age of 101 in Paris.

Zinaida Serebryakova was devoted to the traditions of classical art and acquired her own style of painting, demonstrating joy and optimism, faith in love and the power of creativity, capturing many beautiful moments of her life and those around her.

Z. Serebryakova, 1900s.

Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova (1884-1967) – artist.

Zinaida Serebryakova was born on December 12, 1884 in the Neskuchnoye estate, Kursk province. She was the youngest of six children in the family of the sculptor Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Lanceray (1848-1886) and his wife Ekaterina Nikolaevna (1850-1933), née Benois.

Her father died when Zinaida was two years old, and her mother and children left Neskuchny for the St. Petersburg apartment of her father, Nikolai Leontievich Benois (1813-1898). In my grandfather’s house everything was alive with art: exhibitions, the theater, the Hermitage. Zinaida's mother was a graphic artist in her youth; her uncle Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (1870-1960) and older brother Evgeniy Lanceray were fond of drawing.

The family was not surprised when the gifted girl decided to become an artist. For several years she changed schools, countries and teachers in search of what she needed. In 1900 - the art school of Princess Tenisheva. A year later, several months at Ilya Repin's school. Then a year in Italy. In 1903-1905 apprenticeship with portrait painter O.E. Braza (1873-1936). In 1905-1906 – Grand Chaumiere Academy in Paris.

In 1905, Zinaida Lansere married Boris Serebryakov, who was her cousin. They knew each other since childhood. And in 1910, the artist Zinaida Serebryakova received recognition for her painting “Behind the Toilet.” Family happiness and the joy of creativity!

The October Revolution found Zinaida Serebryakova in Neskuchny. In 1919, her husband died of typhus. She was left with four children and a sick mother. The estate was plundered, and in 1920 she left for Petrograd to live in her grandfather’s apartment. There was a place there after compaction.

Serebryakova left for Paris in 1924 and did not return. After some time, they managed to transport the children Sasha and Katya to her. She helped her mother and Tata and Zhenya, who remained with her, as best she could.

The brilliant artist Zinaida Serebryakova lived half her life in impoverished Parisian emigration. Fame abroad came to her after her death. And in your homeland? In the USSR in 1960, after 36 years of separation, her daughter Tatyana Borisovna Serebryakova, Tata, came to Paris. But the artist did not dare to follow her to Russia. There was no strength to move. Only in the spring of 1965 did the 80-year-old artist realize her dream - she came to Moscow for the opening of her first exhibition in the USSR.

Serebryakova - joy of life

In a scarf, 1911

Pierrot. Portrait 1911

Biography of Serebryakova

1884. November 28 (December 12) - birth of a daughter, Zinaida, in the Neskuchnoye estate, Belgorod district, Kursk province, into the family of the sculptor Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Lanceray and his wife Ekaterina Nikolaevna (nee Benois).
1886. March 23 – father’s death from tuberculosis. Autumn - moving to St. Petersburg to visit his mother’s parents - academician of architecture Nikolai Leontievich Benois and grandmother Kamilla Albertovna.
1893. Study at the Kolomna women's gymnasium.
1898. December 11 – death of grandfather N.L. Benoit.
1899. Summer - the first summer after the death of my grandfather, entirely spent on the Neskuchnoye estate.
1900. Graduation from high school and admission to the M.K. Art School. Tenisheva.
1902. Ekaterina Nikolaevna’s trip with her daughters Ekaterina, Maria and Zinaida to Italy to Capri - “Capri” sketches.
1903. March - move to Rome, acquaintance under the leadership of A.N. Benois with the art of Antiquity and the Renaissance. Summer – work in Neskuchny on landscapes and sketches of peasants. Autumn – admission to O.E.’s workshop. Braza (studied there until 1905).
1905. Spring - visit organized by S.P. Diaghilev historical exhibition of portraits in the Tauride Palace. September 9 – marriage to Boris Anatolyevich Serebryakov. November – departure with his mother to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere. December - the arrival of my husband in Paris, who entered the Paris Higher School of Roads and Bridges.
1906. Study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere. April – return to St. Petersburg. May 26 – birth of a son in Neskuchny, named after the artist’s father Evgeniy.
1907. September 7 – birth of son Alexander.
1908-1909. Serebryakova painted landscapes and portraits in Neskuchny.
1910. February - participation in the VII exhibition of the Union of Russian Artists in St. Petersburg with thirteen works. Acquisition of three works by the Tretyakov Gallery.
1911. December - participation in the World of Art exhibition in Moscow. Serebryakova was elected a member of the association.
1912. January 22 – birth of daughter Tatyana.
1913. June 28 – birth of daughter Catherine.
1914. May-June - trip to Northern Italy (Milan, Florence, Padua, Venice). Along the way - Berlin, Leipzig, Munich.
1915. November - Serebryakova’s participation in the exhibition of etudes, sketches and drawings “World of Art” in Petrograd.
1916. December - participation in the exhibition "World of Art" in Petrograd. Working on sketches of panels for the Kazansky railway station. Images of oriental beauties did not appear in the station's paintings.
1917. January - Serebryakova was nominated for the title of academician of the Academy of Arts. S.R. Ernst completed a monograph on Serebryakova’s work, published in 1922.
1918. Serebryakova lived with her mother and children in Kharkov in temporary apartments. Sometimes I came to Neskuchnoye.
1919. January - Zinaida Serebryakova came to her husband in Moscow. March 22 – death of B.A. Serebryakov from typhus in Kharkov. Autumn - the Neskuchnoye estate is looted and destroyed. November – relocation with mother and children to Kharkov. End of the year - participation in the "First Exhibition of Arts of the Kharkov Council of Workers' Deputies."
1920. January-October - work at the Archaeological Museum at Kharkov University. December – return to Petrograd.
1921. April - the Serebryakova family moved to the “Benoit house”. The acquisition by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts of a number of works by the artist with their subsequent transfer to the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery.
1922. May-June - participation in the World of Art exhibition in Petrograd. Start of work at the Choreographic School and the Mariinsky Theater on sketches of artistic dressing rooms and portraits of ballerinas.
1924. January - participation in the exhibition of artists "World of Art". March 8 – opening in New York of an exhibition of one hundred Russian artists in the USA. Of the 14 paintings by Serebryakova, two were sold. August 24 – Serebryakova’s departure from the USSR. September 4 – arrival in Paris.
1925. Spring - Serebryakova in England with her cousin N.L. Ustinova. May-June – work on custom portraits. Summer – son Alexander’s arrival in France. Moving with my son to Versailles, working on sketches in Versailles Park.
1927. March 26 - April 12 – Serebryakova’s exhibition at the J. Charpentier gallery. June-August – arrival on a business trip of E.E. Lansere.
1928. March - daughter Katya arrives in Paris. Summer - work in Bruges on portraits of members of the family of Baron J.A. de Brouwer. December – the start of a six-week trip to Morocco.
1929. January - end of trip to Morocco. February 23 - March 8 – exhibition of Moroccan works by Serebryakova at the Bernheim Jr. Gallery. April 30 - May 14 – Serebryakova’s exhibition in the gallery of V.O. Girshman.
1930. January-February - participation in an exhibition of Russian art in Berlin. Summer - a trip to the south of France, creating numerous landscapes in Collioure and Menton. Participation in an exhibition of Russian art in Belgrade.
1931. March-April - participation in exhibitions of portraits of the French Association of Artists. July-August – trip to Nice and Menton. November-December – exhibition (together with D. Buschen) in Antwerp and Brussels.
1932. February-March - trip to Morocco: work on portraits, landscapes, everyday scenes. Summer – work in Italy: landscapes of Florence and Assisi. December 3-18 – Serebryakova’s exhibition at the J. Charpentier gallery, articles by A.N. Benoit and K. Moclair. December – participation in the exhibition “Russian Art” at the Renaissance Gallery in Paris. Participation in the exhibition "Russian Painting of Two Centuries" in Riga.
1933. March 3 – mother’s death in Leningrad. April – participation in the exhibition of portraits of the French Association of Artists. Summer – trip to Switzerland and the south of France. Moving to Rue Blanche in Montmartre.
1934. April - participation in an exhibition of portraits at the House of Artists in Paris. July-August - Serebryakova in Brittany: work on landscapes, portraits of lacemakers and fishermen.
1935. Spring - participation in an exhibition of Russian art in London. Summer – trip to Esteny (Auvergne), creating still lifes with grapes. End of the year - preparation for painting the hall of the villa of Baron J.A. de Brouwer "Manoir du Relay". Participation in the exhibition "Russian Art of the 18th-20th Centuries" in Prague.
1936. Work on panels for Manoir du Relay. December – Serebryakova in Belgium to “try on” four panels in the hall of the Manoir.
1937. April - Serebryakova in Belgium to deliver the panels and finalize the maps written by her son Alexander. June – visit to the Soviet pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris. June-August – trips to Brittany, the south of France, the Pyrenees.
1938. January 18 - February 1 - Serebryakova exhibition at the J. Charpentier gallery in Paris. June-August – trips to England and Corsica. Serebryakova has a sharp deterioration in her health - cardiac neurosis. On the recommendation of doctors, she went to Italy, to San Gimignano. December – eye surgery.
1939. May 6 – death of K.A. Somova. July-August - Serebryakova in Switzerland: work on portraits and landscapes. September 3 – France enters World War II. Moving to Campagne Premier Street.
1940. Beginning of the year - cessation of postal communication with relatives in the USSR. June 14 – German troops enter Paris.
1941. June 22 – German attack on the USSR. Autumn – participation in three works in the Autumn Salon. Work on landscapes of the Tuileries and Luxembourg Gardens.
1942. Operation for Graves' disease. Death in prison in Saratov of brother N.E. Lansere, arrested in 1938
1944. August 25 – liberation of Paris.
1946. September 13 - death in Moscow of brother E.E. Lansere. December – correspondence with relatives resumes.
1947-1948. Serebryakov in England: working on commissioned portraits and still lifes.
1949. August - trip to the French provinces of Auvergne and Burgundy to work on commissioned portraits.
1951. Beginning of permanent exhibition of Serebryakova’s works in the USSR at exhibitions from private collections and museum funds.
1953. Summer - Serebryakova in England: work on landscapes.
1954. May-June - nine-day exhibition of works, together with A.B. and E.B. Serebryakov, in a workshop on Campagne Premier Street.
1955. November - decision to bequeath several of his works to museums in the Soviet Union.
1956. August – meeting at A.N. Benoit and in his workshop with F.S., who came from Moscow. Bogorodsky.
1957. May-September - visits to Serebryakova by Vice President of the USSR Academy of Arts V.S. Kemenov.
1958. March – meeting between Serebryakova and V.S. Kemenov and the USSR Ambassador to France S.A. Vinogradov, who offered to return to their homeland. June - visit to the Moscow Art Theater's touring performance "The Cherry Orchard", meeting with the theater management and actress K. Ivanova.
1960. February 9 – death of A.N. Benoit in Paris. April marks the first visit to Paris of Tatyana’s daughter after thirty-six years of separation. December 15 – opening of the exhibition “The Benois Family” in London, in which Serebryakova participated in three landscapes.
1961. Appeal by T.B. Serebryakova to the board of the Union of Artists to organize an exhibition of her mother in the USSR. March - visit to Serebryakova by employees of the Soviet embassy, visit of S.V. Gerasimova, D.A. Shmarinova, A.K. Sokolov to view the works.
1962. February 17 - participation with four works in the evening in favor of Russian disabled people of the First World War.
1964. May - daughter Tatyana arrives from Moscow. Spring-summer - Serebryakova selected and put in order works for an exhibition in Moscow. Sending works with the help of the Soviet embassy. Autumn – correspondence regarding the design of the poster and exhibition catalogue.
1965. May-June - exhibitions of Zinaida Serebryakova in Moscow at the Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists and Kyiv at the Kiev State Museum of Russian Art.
1966. February - visit to Serebryakova by art critic I.S. Zilberstein. March-April – an exhibition of Serebryakova’s paintings in Leningrad at the Russian Museum, which was a huge success. Spring – visit of the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Pushkareva. The Russian Museum acquired 21 works by Serebryakova from the exhibition. December – son Eugene’s first visit to Paris.
1967. Spring - Evgeny and Tatiana arrive in Paris to meet with their mother. Creation of portraits of Tatiana and Evgeniy, V.A. Pushkareva. September 19 – Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova died after a short illness. She was buried in the Sainte-Geneviève des Bois cemetery near Paris.

Serebryakova's paintings

The successful life of the talented artist Z.E. Serebryakova, after 1917 turned into years of wandering, suffering and memories of the past. She was torn between the need to create and the need to earn money to support her family. But Serebryakova’s paintings are always about beauty and harmony, an open and friendly look.

Serebryakov in Moscow

Komsomolskaya, 2. Kazansky railway station. In 1916, Z. Serebryakov, at the invitation of uncle A.N. Benoit took part in the painting of the station.
Lavrushinsky, 10. Tretyakov Gallery. After an exhibition organized in 1910 by the World of Art association, the Tretyakov Gallery acquired several paintings by Serebryakova.

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 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 their 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 the 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 Leontievich 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 first 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, Türkiye 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 supported her spiritually. 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).