Zinaida Serebryakova is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Zinaida Serebryakova as Russian and French painter (1884-1967).
Zinaida Serebryakova was born at Neskuchne in 1884. Her recorded nationality is Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. She trained at Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
She worked as painter and artist.
Her recorded movement is impressionism.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Zinaida Serebryakova died in 1967, aged 83. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Impressionism
