1. Zinaida Serebriakova's father, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Lansere, was a sculptor.
16 Facts About Zinaida Serebriakova
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Zinaida Serebriakova's mother, Yekaterina Lansere, was a painter and came from the artistic Benois family.
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Zinaida Serebriakova's grandfather, Nicholas Benois, was a prominent architect, chairman of the Society of Architects and member of the Russian Academy of Science.
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Zinaida Serebriakova's uncle, Alexandre Benois, was a painter, founder of the Mir iskusstva art group.
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From 1914 to 1917, Zinaida Serebriakova produced a series of pictures on the theme of Russian rural life including Peasants and Sleeping Peasant Girl.
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In 1916, Alexander Benois was commissioned to decorate the Kazan Railway Station in Moscow and he invited Yevgeny Lanceray, Boris Kustodiev, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and Zinaida Serebriakova to help him.
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Zinaida Serebriakova took on the theme of the Orient: India, Japan, Turkey, and Siam are represented allegorically in the form of beautiful women.
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Zinaida Serebriakova was left without any income, responsible for her four children and her sick mother.
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Zinaida Serebriakova had to give up oil painting in favour of the less expensive techniques of charcoal and pencil.
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Zinaida Serebriakova did not want to switch to the Suprematist or Contructivist styles 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.
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Zinaida Serebriakova painted a series of portraits of ballerinas after developing an interest in ballet.
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Zinaida Serebriakova was fascinated by the landscapes of northern Africa and painted the Atlas Mountains, as well as Arab women and Africans in ethnic clothing.
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Zinaida Serebriakova's works were finally exhibited in the Soviet Union in 1966, in Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev, to great acclaim.
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Zinaida Serebriakova's albums sold by the millions, and she was compared to Botticelli and Renoir.
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Zinaida Serebriakova died after a brain hemorrhage in Paris on 19 September 1967, at the age of 82.
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Zinaida Serebriakova is buried in Paris, at the Russian cemetery in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois.