The EXHIBITION includes some 50works, executed in a variety of techniques(oil, tempera, pastel, charcoal) and representing almost every facet of his art: his famous self-portraits, portraits of children who were his preferred models, genre sketches, landscapes of Morocco and various regions of France, Italy and Switzerland, exquisite still lifes and sensual nudes.
Theexhibition also presents for the first time the artist's personal objects and tools: his easel, pastels, brushes and paints, allowing visitors to feel the atmosphere in which his masterpieces were created.
ZINAÏDA SEREBRIAKOVA, from the Benois - Cavos - Lanceray family, known for its talented descendants whose ancestors came to Russia from France and Italy, has created an inextricable link between different cultures in her work, enriching both the Russian and French schools of art.
His early paintings had already earned him considerable renown. Her Self-Portrait with Toilet (1909) was immediately acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery. She went on to paint famous canvases such as Au petit déjeuner, Le Bain, Toile de blanchiment, a series devoted to ballet, and many others.
Her work is characterized by a joyful, luminous vision of the world. The charm of femininity and the impressions of nature are transformed into precise, classical forms of artistic language, characterized by terseness and geometric lines.
After the revolution of 1917, the burning of her family estate Neskoutchnoyé and the death of her husband in 1919, Zinaïda found herself without means, with four children and an elderly mother to support. In August 1924, at the height of her creativity, the artist left for France, the homeland of her ancestors, in the hope of finding a steady income.
In France, Serebriakova worked hard, while remaining true to her chosen realist path. She sought natural impressions from her travels in France, Italy, England, Switzerland, Belgium and Morocco, from the faces of children and acquaintances, and from rare models who gave her the opportunity to revisit the image of the naked body.
Zinaïda Serebriakova had been exhibiting since 1910, but her first solo show was held in Paris in 1927. The last major exhibition to be held in France during the artist's lifetime was in 1938.
Dates and Opening Time
From November 6, 2024 to January 8, 2025
Location
Russian Orthodox Spiritual and Cultural Center
1 Quai Branly
75007 Paris 7
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Free admission with registration.
