MAREVNA (Maria VOROBIEV , dite)

Russian painter

[ TCHEBOKSARY, TCHOUVACHIE 1892 – LONDRES 1984 ]

Domain :

ARTS

Geographical area :

EUROPE

Russie

Author : Catherine GONNARD

Under the direction of : Marie-Laure BERNADAC

Marevna was born to an actress and adopted by a Polish aristocrat when she was two years old. She spent most of her childhood in the Caucasus, surrounded by Byzantine culture. At the age of eighteen, she moved to Moscow, where she lived alone while studying at the Stroganov Academy of Decorative Arts and at the Free Academy. After spending...

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Bibliography

Paintings 1913-1967 (exhibition catalogue), Peillex G. (texts), Geneva, Petit Palais, 1971; Mémoires d’une nomade, Paris, Encre, 1979; Marevna et les Montparnos (exhibition catalogue), Paris, Musée Bourdelle, 1985; Paintings and Works on Paper, Armstrong A. (ed.), San Francisco, Harcourts Gallery, 1990.

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