In the history of art, Marie Vassilieff is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Marie Vassilieff as Russian artist (1884-1957).
Marie Vassilieff was born at Smolensk in 1884. Her recorded nationality is Russia. She trained at Académie de La Palette and Imperial Academy of Arts.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
She worked as painter, sculptor and scenographer.
Her recorded movement is cubism.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Russia shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Marie Vassilieff died in 1957, aged 73. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: cubism
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