Artist Zinaida. Biography

Z. Serebryakova, 1900s.

Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova (1884-1967) – artist.

Zinaida Serebryakova was born on December 12, 1884 in the Neskuchnoye estate, Kursk province. She was the youngest of six children in the family of the sculptor Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Lanceray (1848-1886) and his wife Ekaterina Nikolaevna (1850-1933), née Benois.

The father died when Zinaida was two years old, and the mother and children left Neskuchny for the St. Petersburg apartment of their father, Nikolai. Leontievich Benois(1813-1898). In my grandfather’s house everything was alive with art: exhibitions, the theater, the Hermitage. Zinaida's mother was a graphic artist in her youth; her uncle Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (1870-1960) and older brother Evgeniy Lanceray were fond of drawing.

The family was not surprised when the gifted girl decided to become an artist. For several years she changed schools, countries and teachers in search of what she needed. In 1900 - the art school of Princess Tenisheva. A year later, several months at Ilya Repin's school. Then a year in Italy. In 1903-1905 apprenticeship with portrait painter O.E. Braza (1873-1936). In 1905-1906 – Grand Chaumiere Academy in Paris.

In 1905, Zinaida Lansere married Boris Serebryakov, who was her cousin. They knew each other since childhood. And in 1910, the artist Zinaida Serebryakova received recognition for her painting “Behind the Toilet.” Family happiness and the joy of creativity!

The October Revolution found Zinaida Serebryakova in Neskuchny. In 1919, her husband died of typhus. She was left with four children and a sick mother. The estate was plundered, and in 1920 she left for Petrograd to live in her grandfather’s apartment. There was a place there after compaction.

Serebryakova went to Paris in 1924 and did not return. After some time, they managed to transport the children Sasha and Katya to her. She helped her mother and Tata and Zhenya, who remained with her, as best she could.

The brilliant artist Zinaida Serebryakova lived half her life in impoverished Parisian emigration. Fame abroad came to her after her death. And in your homeland? In the USSR in 1960, after 36 years of separation, her daughter Tatyana Borisovna Serebryakova, Tata, came to Paris. But the artist did not dare to follow her to Russia. There was no strength to move. Only in the spring of 1965 did the 80-year-old artist realize her dream - she came to Moscow for the opening of her first exhibition in the USSR.

Serebryakova - joy of life

In a scarf, 1911

Bather, 1911

Pierrot. Portrait 1911

Girl with a candle, 1911

In red. Portrait 1921

Biography of Serebryakova

Zinaida Serebryakova. Self-portrait 1930

Z.E. Serebryakova. Self-portrait 1946

Z.E. Serebryakova. Self-portrait 1956

• 1884. November 28 (December 12) - birth of a daughter, Zinaida, in the Neskuchnoye estate, Belgorod district, Kursk province, into the family of the sculptor Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Lanceray and his wife Ekaterina Nikolaevna (nee Benois).
• 1886. March 23 – father’s death from tuberculosis. Autumn - moving to St. Petersburg to visit his mother’s parents - academician of architecture Nikolai Leontievich Benois and grandmother Kamilla Albertovna.
• 1893. Study at the Kolomna women's gymnasium.
• 1898. December 11 – death of grandfather N.L. Benoit.
• 1899. Summer - the first summer after the death of my grandfather, entirely spent on the Neskuchnoye estate.
• 1900. Graduation from high school and admission to the M.K. Art School. Tenisheva.
• 1902. Ekaterina Nikolaevna’s trip with her daughters Ekaterina, Maria and Zinaida to Italy to Capri - “Capri” sketches.
• 1903. March - move to Rome, acquaintance under the leadership of A.N. Benois with the art of Antiquity and the Renaissance. Summer – work in Neskuchny on landscapes and sketches of peasants. Autumn – admission to O.E.’s workshop. Braza (studied there until 1905).
• 1905. Spring - visit organized by S.P. Diaghilev historical exhibition portraits in the Tauride Palace. September 9 – marriage to Boris Anatolyevich Serebryakov. November - departure with his mother to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere. December - the arrival of my husband in Paris, who entered the Paris Higher School of Roads and Bridges.
• 1906. Study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. April – return to St. Petersburg. May 26 – birth of a son in Neskuchny, named after the artist’s father Evgeniy.
• 1907. September 7 – birth of son Alexander.
• 1908-1909. Serebryakova painted landscapes and portraits in Neskuchny.
• 1910. February - participation in the VII exhibition of the Union of Russian Artists in St. Petersburg with thirteen works. Acquisition three works Tretyakov Gallery.
• 1911. December - participation in the World of Art exhibition in Moscow. Serebryakova was elected a member of the association.
• 1912. January 22 – birth of daughter Tatyana.
• 1913. June 28 – birth of daughter Catherine.
• 1914. May-June - trip to Northern Italy (Milan, Florence, Padua, Venice). Along the way - Berlin, Leipzig, Munich.
• 1915. November - Serebryakova’s participation in the exhibition of etudes, sketches and drawings “World of Art” in Petrograd.
• 1916. December - participation in the exhibition "World of Art" in Petrograd. Working on sketches of panels for the Kazansky railway station. Images of oriental beauties did not appear in the station's paintings.
• 1917. January - Serebryakova was nominated for the title of academician of the Academy of Arts. S.R. Ernst completed a monograph on Serebryakova’s work, published in 1922.
• 1918. Serebryakova lived with her mother and children in Kharkov in temporary apartments. Sometimes I came to Neskuchnoye.
• 1919. January - Zinaida Serebryakova came to her husband in Moscow. March 22 – death of B.A. Serebryakov from typhus in Kharkov. Autumn - the Neskuchnoye estate is looted and destroyed. November – relocation with mother and children to Kharkov. End of the year - participation in the "First Exhibition of Arts of the Kharkov Council of Workers' Deputies."
• 1920. January-October - work at the Archaeological Museum at Kharkov University. December – return to Petrograd.
• 1921. April - the Serebryakova family moved to the “Benoit house”. The acquisition by the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts of a number of works by the artist subsequent transmission them to the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery.
• 1922. May-June - participation in the World of Art exhibition in Petrograd. Start of work at the Choreographic School and the Mariinsky Theater on sketches of artistic dressing rooms and portraits of ballerinas.
• 1924. January - participation in the exhibition of artists "World of Art". March 8 – opening in New York exhibitions of one hundred Russian artists in the USA. Of the 14 paintings by Serebryakova, two were sold. August 24 – Serebryakova’s departure from the USSR. September 4 – arrival in Paris.
• 1925. Spring - Serebryakov in England cousin H.L. Ustinova. May-June – work on custom portraits. Summer – son Alexander’s arrival in France. Moving with my son to Versailles, working on sketches in Versailles Park.
• 1927. March 26 - April 12 – Serebryakova’s exhibition at the J. Charpentier gallery. June-August – arrival on a business trip of E.E. Lansere.
• 1928. March - daughter Katya arrives in Paris. Summer - work in Bruges on portraits of members of the family of Baron J.A. de Brouwer. December – the start of a six-week trip to Morocco.
• 1929. January - end of trip to Morocco. February 23 - March 8 – exhibition of Moroccan works by Serebryakova at the Bernheim Jr. Gallery. April 30 - May 14 – Serebryakova’s exhibition in the gallery of V.O. Girshman.
• 1930. January-February - participation in an exhibition of Russian art in Berlin. Summer - a trip to the south of France, creating numerous landscapes in Collioure and Menton. Participation in an exhibition of Russian art in Belgrade.
• 1931. March-April - participation in exhibitions of portraits of the French Association of Artists. July-August – trip to Nice and Menton. November-December – exhibition (together with D. Buschen) in Antwerp and Brussels.
• 1932. February-March - trip to Morocco: work on portraits, landscapes, everyday scenes. Summer – work in Italy: landscapes of Florence and Assisi. December 3-18 – Serebryakova’s exhibition at the J. Charpentier gallery, articles by A.N. Benoit and K. Moclair. December – participation in the exhibition " Russian art" in the Renaissance gallery in Paris. Participation in the exhibition "Russian painting of two centuries" in Riga.
• 1933. March 3 – mother’s death in Leningrad. April – participation in the exhibition of portraits of the French Association of Artists. Summer – trip to Switzerland and the south of France. Moving to Rue Blanche in Montmartre.
• 1934. April - participation in an exhibition of portraits at the House of Artists in Paris. July-August - Serebryakova in Brittany: work on landscapes, portraits of lacemakers and fishermen.
• 1935. Spring - participation in an exhibition of Russian art in London. Summer – trip to Esteny (Auvergne), creating still lifes with grapes. End of the year - preparation for painting the hall of the villa of Baron J.A. de Brouwer "Manoir du Relay". Participation in the exhibition "Russian art XVIII-XX centuries" in Prague.
• 1936. Work on panels for Manoir du Relay. December – Serebryakova in Belgium to “try on” four panels in the hall of the Manoir.
• 1937. April - Serebryakova in Belgium to deliver the panels and finalize the maps written by her son Alexander. June – visit to the Soviet pavilion at World's Fair in Paris. June-August – trips to Brittany, the south of France, the Pyrenees.
• 1938. January 18 - February 1 - Serebryakova exhibition at the J. Charpentier gallery in Paris. June-August – trips to England and Corsica. Serebryakova has a sharp deterioration in her health - cardiac neurosis. On the recommendation of doctors, she went to Italy, to San Gimignano. December – eye surgery.
• 1939. May 6 – death of K.A. Somova. July-August - Serebryakova in Switzerland: work on portraits and landscapes. September 3 – France enters World War II. Moving to Campagne Premier Street.
• 1940. Beginning of the year - cessation of postal communication with relatives in the USSR. June 14 – German troops enter Paris.
• 1941. June 22 – German attack on the USSR. Autumn – participation in three works in the Autumn Salon. Work on landscapes of the Tuileries and Luxembourg Gardens.
• 1942. Operation for Graves' disease. Death in prison in Saratov of brother N.E. Lansere, arrested in 1938
• 1944. August 25 – liberation of Paris.
• 1946. September 13 - death in Moscow of brother E.E. Lansere. December – correspondence with relatives resumes.
• 1947-1948. Serebryakov in England: working on commissioned portraits and still lifes.
• 1949. August - trip to the French provinces of Auvergne and Burgundy to work on commissioned portraits.
• 1951. Beginning of permanent exhibition of Serebryakova’s works in the USSR at exhibitions from private collections and museum funds.
• 1953. Summer - Serebryakova in England: work on landscapes.
• 1954. May-June - nine-day exhibition of works, together with A.B. and E.B. Serebryakov, in a workshop on Campagne Premier Street.
• 1955. November - decision to bequeath several of his works to museums in the Soviet Union.
• 1956. August – meeting at A.N. Benoit and in his workshop with F.S., who came from Moscow. Bogorodsky.
• 1957. May-September - visits to Serebryakova by Vice President of the USSR Academy of Arts V.S. Kemenov.
• 1958. March – meeting between Serebryakova and V.S. Kemenov and the USSR Ambassador to France S.A. Vinogradov, who offered to return to their homeland. June – visit to the Moscow Art Theater's touring performance " The Cherry Orchard", meeting with the theater management and actress K. Ivanova.
• 1960. February 9 – death of A.N. Benoit in Paris. April marks the first visit to Paris of Tatyana’s daughter after thirty-six years of separation. December 15 – opening of the exhibition “The Benois Family” in London, in which Serebryakova participated in three landscapes.
• 1961. Appeal by T.B. Serebryakova to the board of the Union of Artists to organize an exhibition of her mother in the USSR. March - visit to Serebryakova by employees of the Soviet embassy, ​​visit of S.V. Gerasimova, D.A. Shmarinova, A.K. Sokolov to view the works.
• 1962. February 17 - participation with four works in the evening in favor of Russian disabled people of the First World War.
• 1964. May – daughter Tatyana arrives from Moscow. Spring-summer - Serebryakova selected and put in order works for an exhibition in Moscow. Sending works with the help of the Soviet embassy. Autumn – correspondence regarding the design of the poster and exhibition catalogue.
• 1965. May-June - exhibitions of Zinaida Serebryakova in Moscow at the Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists and Kyiv at the Kiev State Museum of Russian Art.
• 1966. February - visit to Serebryakova by art critic I.S. Zilberstein. March-April – an exhibition of Serebryakova’s paintings in Leningrad at the Russian Museum, which was a huge success. Spring – visit of the director of the Russian Museum V.A. Pushkareva. The Russian Museum acquired 21 works by Serebryakova from the exhibition. December – son Eugene’s first visit to Paris.
• 1967. Spring - Evgeny and Tatiana arrive in Paris to meet their mother. Creation of portraits of Tatiana and Evgeniy, V.A. Pushkareva. September 19 – Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova died after a short illness. She was buried in the Sainte-Genevieve des Bois cemetery near Paris.

Serebryakova's paintings

The successful life of the talented artist Z.E. Serebryakova, after 1917 turned into years of wandering, suffering and memories of the past. She was torn between the need to create and the need to earn money to support her family. But Serebryakova’s paintings are always beauty and harmony, an open and friendly look.

Serebryakov in Moscow

• Komsomolskaya, 2. Kazansky railway station. In 1916, Z. Serebryakov, at the invitation of uncle A.N. Benoit took part in the painting of the station.
• Lavrushinsky, 10. Tretyakov Gallery. After an exhibition organized in 1910 by the World of Art association, the Tretyakov Gallery acquired several paintings by Serebryakova.

Zinaida Serebryakova, a Russian artist who became famous at the beginning of the 20th century for her self-portrait, lived a long and eventful life, most of which took place in exile in Paris. Now, in connection with the holding of a huge exhibition of her works at the Tretyakov Gallery, I would like to remember and talk about her difficult life, about the ups and downs, about the fate of her family.

Zinaida Serebryakova: biography, first successes in painting

She was born in 1884 into the famous Benois-Lanceret artistic family, which became famous for several generations of sculptors, painters, architects and composers. Her childhood was spent in a wonderful creative atmosphere surrounded by big family who surrounded her with tenderness and care.

The family lived in St. Petersburg, and in the summer they always moved to the Neskuchnoye estate near Kharkov. Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova studied painting privately, first with Princess Tenishcheva in St. Petersburg, then with the portraitist O. Braz. She later continued her education in Italy and France.

Upon returning from Paris, the artist joined the World of Art society, which united artists of those times, later called the era Silver Age. Her first success came in 1910, after showing her self-portrait “At the Toilet” (1909), which was immediately purchased by P. Tretyakov for the gallery.

The painting depicts a beautiful young woman standing in front of a mirror, doing her morning toilet. Her eyes look welcomingly at the viewer, women's little things are laid out on the table next to her: bottles of perfume, a box, beads, standing unlit candle. In this work, the artist’s face and eyes are still full of joyful youth and sunshine, expressing a bright, emotional, life-affirming mood.

Marriage and children

She spent her entire childhood and youth with her chosen one, constantly communicating both in Neskuchny and in St. Petersburg with the family of her relatives, the Serebryakovs. Boris Serebryakov was her cousin, they loved each other since childhood and dreamed of getting married. However, this did not work out for a long time due to the church’s disagreement with consanguineous marriages. And only in 1905, after an agreement with the local priest (for 300 rubles), their relatives were able to arrange a wedding for them.

The newlyweds had completely opposite interests: Boris was preparing to become an engineer railways, loved risk and even went to practice in Manchuria during Russo-Japanese War, and Zinaida Serebryakova was fond of painting. However, they were very tender and strong love relationship, bright plans for a future life together.

Their living together began a year long, where the artist continued to study painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere, and Boris studied at High school bridges and roads.

Returning to Neskuchnoye, the artist is actively working on landscapes and portraits, and Boris continues his studies at the Institute of Railways and takes care of the house. They had four children of the same age: first two sons, then two daughters. During these years, many works were dedicated to her children, which reflect all the joys of motherhood and the growing up of children.

The famous painting “At Breakfast” depicts a family feast in a house where love and happiness live, depicts children at the table, surrounding household little things. The artist paints portraits of herself and her husband, sketches of economic life in Neskuchny, draws local peasant women in the works “Whitening the Canvas”, “Harvest”, etc. Locals they loved the Serebryakov family very much, respected them for their ability to manage a household, and therefore gladly posed for the artist’s paintings.

Revolution and famine

The revolutionary events of 1917 reached Neskuchny, bringing fire and disaster. The Serebryakov estate was burned down by the “fighters of the revolution,” but the artist herself and her children managed to leave it with the help of local peasants, who warned her and even gave her several bags of wheat and carrots for the road. The Serebryakovs move to Kharkov to live with their grandmother. During these months, Boris worked as a road specialist, first in Siberia, then in Moscow.

Not receiving any news from her husband, and very worried about him, Zinaida Serebryakova goes to look for him, leaving the children with her mother. However, after their reunion on the road, Boris contracted typhus and died in the arms of loving wife. Zinaida is left alone with 4 children and an elderly mother in hungry Kharkov. She works part-time at an archaeological museum, making sketches of prehistoric skulls and using the money to buy food for her children.

The tragic "House of Cards"

The painting “House of Cards” by Zinaida Serebryakova was painted a few months after the death of her husband Boris, when the artist lived from hand to mouth with her children and her mother in Kharkov, and became the most tragic among her works. Serebryakova herself perceived the title of the painting as a metaphor for her own life.

It was written oil paints, which were the last in that period, because All the money was spent to prevent the family from dying of hunger. Life fell apart like a house of cards. And the artist had no prospects ahead in her creative and personal life, the main thing at that moment was to save and feed the children.

Life in Petrograd

In Kharkov there was neither money nor orders for painting work, so the artist decides to move the whole family to Petrograd, closer to relatives and cultural life. She was invited to work in the Petrograd Department of Museums as a professor at the Academy of Arts, and in December 1920 the whole family was already living in Petrograd. However, she abandoned teaching in order to work in her workshop.

Serebryakova paints portraits, views of Tsarskoe Selo and Gatchina. However, her hopes for better life did not materialize: there was also famine in the Northern capital, and we even had to eat potato peelings.

Rare customers helped Zinaida feed and raise her children; daughter Tanya began studying choreography at the Mariinsky Theater. Young ballerinas constantly came to their house and posed for the artist. This is how a whole series of ballet paintings and compositions were created, which show young sylphs and ballerinas getting dressed to go on stage in a performance.

In 1924, a revival began. Several paintings by Zinaida Serebryakova were sold at an exhibition of Russian art in America. Having received the fee, she decides to go to Paris for a while to earn money to support her large family.

Paris. In exile

Leaving the children with their grandmother in Petrograd, Serebryakova came to Paris in September 1924. However, creative life here she turned out to be unsuccessful: at first she did not have her own workshop, there were few orders, she managed to earn very little money, and even that she sent to her family in Russia.

In the biography of the artist Zinaida Serebryakova, life in Paris turned out to be a turning point, after which she could never return to her homeland, and she would see her two children only 36 years later, almost before her death.

The brightest period of life in France is when her daughter Katya comes here and they visit together small towns France and Switzerland, making sketches, landscapes, portraits of local peasants (1926).

Trips to Morocco

In 1928, after painting a series of portraits for a Belgian entrepreneur, Zinaida and Ekaterina Serebryakov set off on a trip to Morocco with the money they earned. Struck by the beauty of the East, Serebryakova makes a whole series of sketches and works, drawing eastern streets and local residents.

Returning to Paris, she organizes an exhibition of “Moroccan” works, collecting great amount rave reviews, but could not earn anything. All her friends noted her impracticality and inability to sell her work.

In 1932, Zinaida Serebryakova again traveled to Morocco, again doing sketches and landscapes there. During these years, her son Alexander, who also became an artist, was able to escape to her. He is engaged in decorative activities, designs interiors, and also makes custom lampshades.

Her two children, having arrived in Paris, help her earn money by actively engaging in various artistic and decorative works.

Children in Russia

The artist’s two children, Evgeny and Tatyana, who remained in Russia with their grandmother, lived very poorly and hungry. Their apartment was compacted, and they occupied only one room, which they had to heat themselves.

In 1933, her mother E.N. Lansere died, unable to withstand hunger and deprivation, the children were left on their own. They have already grown up and have chosen for themselves creative professions: Zhenya became an architect, and Tatyana became a theater artist. Gradually they arranged their lives, created families, but for many years they dreamed of meeting their mother, constantly corresponding with her.

In the 1930s, the Soviet government invited her to return to her homeland, but in those years Serebryakova worked on a private order in Belgium, and then the Second World War began. World War. After the end of the war, she became very ill and did not dare to move.

Only in 1960 was Tatyana able to come to Paris and see her mother, 36 years after the separation.

Serebryakova exhibitions in Russia

In 1965, during the Thaw years in the Soviet Union, the only lifetime personal exhibition of Zinaida Serebryakova took place in Moscow, then it was held in Kyiv and Leningrad. The artist was 80 years old at that time, and she was unable to come due to her health, but she was immensely happy that she was remembered in her homeland.

The exhibitions were a huge success, reminding everyone of the forgotten great artist who was always devoted to classical art. Serebryakova was able, despite all the turbulent years of the first half of the 20th century, to find her own style. In those years, impressionism and art deco, abstract art and other movements dominated in Europe.

Her children, who lived with her in France, remained devoted to her until the end of her life, arranging her life and helping her financially. They never started their own families and lived with her until her death at the age of 82, after which they organized her exhibitions.

Z. Serebryakova was buried in 1967 at the Saint-Genevieve des Bois cemetery in Paris.

Exhibition in 2017

The exhibition of Zinaida Serebryakova at the Tretyakov Gallery is the largest in the last 30 years (200 paintings and drawings), dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death, and runs from April to the end of July 2017.

The previous retrospective of her work took place in 1986, followed by several projects that showed her work in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and in small private exhibitions.

This time, the curators of the French Foundation Fondation Serebriakoff collected a large number of works to make a grandiose exhibition, which during the summer of 2017 will be located on 2 floors of the gallery’s Engineering Building.

The retrospective is arranged chronologically, which will allow the viewer to see the various creative lines of the artist Zinaida Serebryakova, starting from early portraits and ballet works by dancers of the Mariinsky Theater, which were made in Russia in the 20s. All her paintings are characterized by emotionality and lyricism, a positive feeling of life. In a separate room, works with images of her children are presented.

The next floor contains works created in Paris in exile, including:

• Belgian panels commissioned by Baron de Brouwer (1937-1937), which were at one time thought to have been lost during the war;
• Moroccan sketches and sketches written in 1928 and 1932;
• portraits of Russian emigrants, which were painted in Paris;
• landscapes and nature studies of France, Spain, etc.

Afterword

All children of Zinaida Serebryakova continued the creative traditions and became artists and architects, working in various genres. Serebryakova’s youngest daughter, Ekaterina, lived long life, after the death of her mother, she was actively involved in exhibition activities and work at the Fondation Serebriakoff, died at the age of 101 in Paris.

Zinaida Serebryakova was devoted to the traditions of classical art and acquired her own style of painting, demonstrating joy and optimism, faith in love and the power of creativity, capturing many beautiful moments of her life and those around her.

After visiting the long-awaited exhibition of Zinaida Serebryakova in the Engineering Castle of the Tretyakov Gallery, I am sharing my impressions. More than two hundred works by the artist from Russian and French collections are presented here, some of which came to Russia for the first time. These are mostly paintings written in exile after separation from children and trepidation at the upcoming unknown. Her works amazingly combined modernity and subtle adherence classical traditions; art critic Dmitry Sarabyanov wrote about Zinaida Serebryakova as a sublimely dreamy artist, calm, detached from the worries of time, turned to the beautiful past.

Tata with vegetables, 1923

In the studio of Osip Emmanuilovich Braz, 1905-1906

In a studio. Paris, 1905-1906

The themes of the paintings at the exhibition are very diverse: landscapes (Russian, Moroccan, European), original scenes from peasant life, charming and touching portraits of children, which are exhibited both in the main collection and in a separate room, the so-called Children's; portraits of loved ones, acquaintances, genre scenes and so on. Remembering that I have many non-Muscovite friends, I tried to choose for you not the most famous paintings.

Country girl, 1906

This is how Binka fell asleep, 1907

Boris Serebryakov, 1908

Portrait of a Nanny, 1908-1909

Orchard, 1908

Portrait of a student, 1909

Portrait of Zhenya Serebryakov, 1909

View from the window. Neskuchnoye, 1910

Portrait of Olga Konstantinovna Lanceray, 1910

Green apples on branches, 1910. Donetsk regional Art Museum

Portrait of Mikhail Nikolaevich Benois, 1910, State Russian Museum
One of my favorite portraits of Zinaida Evgenievna)

Portrait of Catherine Lanceray with a child. Early 1910s

Winter landscape, 1910

Portrait of Lola Braz, 1910 Nikolaev Art Museum. V.V. Vereshchagina, Nikolaev

Bather, 1911, Private collection

Nurse with child, 1912

Portrait of a wet nurse, circa 1912

Boris Serebryakov, 1913

Photo from the exhibition of Sergei Mikheev

Peasants, lunch, 1914-1915

Peasant woman putting on her shoes, 1915

Two peasant girls

Portrait of E.E. Lancer in a hat, 1915. Emergency situation, Moscow

Sketches for the murals of the Kazansky railway station restaurant, 1916

Persia Siam

Türkiye (Odalisque) India

Two odalisques, 1916
In 1915-1916, Serebryakova, together with others world of arts worked on the decorative design of the Kazansky railway station restaurant and made several sketches for a panel representing allegories of the countries of the East.

Bathers, 1917

Tata and Katya (At the mirror), 1917

On the terrace in Kharkov, 1919
Last happy days...

House of Cards, 1919

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Portrait of Sergei Rostislavovich Ernst, 1921 and 1922

Portrait of E.I. Zolotarevsky as a child, 1922. National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk

Boys in sailor vests, 1919 Girls at the piano, 1922

Portrait of the artist Dmitry Bushen, 1922

Still life with attributes of art, 1922

Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, 1922

In the kitchen. Portrait of Katya, 1923

Portrait of Olga Iosifovna Rybakova as a child, 1923

Tata ballerina, 1924

Self-portrait, 1920s

The revolution brought only troubles: first, their house was burned along with the library, many drawings and canvases, and two years later, husband Boris Serebryakov died of typhus. Having suffered greatly in the country of the Soviets, in search of work, Zinaida Alexandrovna was forced to leave for Paris in 1924, becoming a first-wave emigrant with a difficult, but at the same time wonderful fate. Younger son and her daughter left with her mother; she was able to meet her elders only forty years later.

Versailles. Rooftops of the city, 1924

Portrait of the architect A.Ya. Beloborodova, 1925

Portraits of Princess Irina Yusupova and Prince Felix Yusupov, 1925

Sandra Loris-Melikova, 1925

Portrait of Sergei Prokofiev's son Svyatoslav, 1927, pastel

Portrait of Felisin Kakan, 1928. Private collection

Marrakesh. View from the terrace of the Atlas Mountains, 1928

Sunlit, 1928

Castellan. Valley, 1929

Luxembourg Gardens, 1930

Luxembourg Gardens, 1930

Collioure. Katya on the terrace. 1930

Menton. Beach with umbrellas, 1930

Basket with grapes on the window. Menton, 1931

Maria Butakova, née Evreinova, 1931

Portrait of Marianne de Brouwer, 1931. Private collection

Nude from behind, 1932

Nude with a red scarf, 1932. Private collection

Reclining Moroccan woman, Marrakech, 1932

Moroccan in green, 1932

Young Moroccan, 1932. Private collection

Moroccan motifs occupy a significant place in Serebryakova’s work. She visited this country twice. Morocco fascinated the artist; its unusual color inspired her. A whole series of works was painted here, mostly portraits. To present these works at least superficially, even my rather succinct posts are not enough) The exhibition of paintings in Paris was a resounding success, but Zinaida Evgenievna did not manage to sell a single work. She was a wonderful artist, but a bad manager.

Study of a woman, 1932. Private collection

Moroccan in pink dress, 1932

England, 1933

Woman in Blue, 1934

Biography of Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova

(1884-1967)

Zinaida Serebryakova was born on November 28, 1884 in the family estate “Neskuchnoe”, near Kharkov. Her father was a famous sculptor. Her mother came from the Benois family, and in her youth was a graphic artist. Her brothers were no less talented, the younger one was an architect, and the older one was a master monumental painting and graphics.

to his artistic development Zinaida is primarily indebted to her uncle Alexander Benois, her mother’s brother and older brother. The artist spent her childhood and youth in St. Petersburg in the house of her grandfather, architect N. L. Benois, and on the Neskuchny estate. Zinaida's attention was always attracted by the work of young peasant girls in the fields. Subsequently, this will be reflected more than once in her work.

In 1886, after the death of his father, the family moved from the estate to St. Petersburg. All family members were busy creative activity, Zina also drew with enthusiasm.

In 1900, Zinaida graduated from a women's gymnasium and entered an art school founded by Princess M.K. Tenisheva.

In 1902-1903, during a trip to Italy, she created many sketches and sketches.

In 1905 she married Boris Anatolyevich Serebryakov, her cousin. After the wedding, the young couple went to Paris. Here Zinaida attends the Academy de la Grande Chaumiere, works a lot, draws from life.

A year later, the young return home. In Neskuchny, Zinaida works hard - creating sketches, portraits and landscapes. In the very first works of the artist, one can already discern her own style and determine the range of her interests. In 1910, Zinaida Serebryakova experienced real success.

In 1910, at the 7th exhibition of Russian artists in Moscow, the Tretyakov Gallery acquired the self-portrait “At the Toilet” and the gouache “Greenery in Autumn”. Her landscapes are magnificent - pure, bright colors, perfection of technology, unprecedented beauty of nature.

The heyday of the artist’s work occurred in the years 1914-1917. Zinaida Serebryakova created a series of paintings dedicated to the Russian village, peasant labor and Russian nature - “Peasants”, “Sleeping Peasant Woman”.

The painting “Whitening the Canvas” revealed Serebryakova’s brilliant talent as a muralist.

In 1916, A. N. Benois was entrusted with painting the Kazansky railway station in Moscow, and he also recruited Zinaida to work. The artist took up the theme of Eastern countries: India, Japan, Türkiye. She allegorically represented these countries in the form beautiful women. At the same time, she began working on compositions on themes of ancient myths. Self-portraits play a special role in Zinaida Serebryakova’s work.

During civil war, Zinaida’s husband was on research in Siberia, and she and her children were in Neskuchny. It seemed impossible to move to Petrograd, and Zinaida went to Kharkov, where she found a job at the Archaeological Museum. Her family estate in Neskuchny burned down, and all her works were lost. Boris later died. Circumstances force the artist to leave Russia. She goes to France. All these years the artist lived in constant thoughts about my husband. She painted four portraits of her husband, which are kept in the Tretyakov Gallery and the Novosibirsk Art Gallery.

In the 20s, Zinaida Serebryakova returned with her children to Petrograd, to former apartment Benoit. Zinaida's daughter Tatyana began studying ballet. Zinaida, visiting with her daughter Mariinskii Opera House, there are also behind the scenes. At the theater, Zinaida constantly drew. In 1922, she created a portrait of D. Balanchine in the costume of Bacchus. Creative communication with ballerinas throughout three years reflected in an amazing series of ballet portraits and compositions.

The family is going through difficult times. Serebryakova tried to paint paintings to order, but nothing worked out for her. She loved working with nature.

In the first years after the revolution, a lively exhibition activities. In 1924, Serebryakova became an exhibitor at a large exhibition of Russian visual arts in America. All the paintings presented to her were sold. With the money raised, she decides to go to Paris to organize an exhibition and receive orders. In 1924 she leaves.

The years spent in Paris did not bring her joy or creative satisfaction. She yearned for her homeland and tried to reflect her love for her in her paintings. Her first exhibition took place only in 1927. She sent the money she earned to her mother and children.

In 1961 in Paris she was visited by two Soviet artist– S. Gerasimov and D. Shmarinov. Later in 1965, they organize an exhibition for her in Moscow.

In 1966, the last, large exhibition of Serebryakova’s works took place in Leningrad and Kyiv.

In 1967, in Paris at the age of 82, Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova died.

Creativity of Z.E. Serebryakova in the context of the work

Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova... This name is associated for me with a painting located in the Tretyakov Gallery: a young woman in front of a mirror... A feeling of amazing purity and clarity of the image, a rare combination of mental and physical beauty remains in my memory...

Ivan Antonovich Efremov in the novel "The Razor's Edge" recalls Zinaida Serebryakova as a wonderful Russian artist, "one of the most outstanding Russian masters, undeservedly forgotten." The artist devoted her entire life to collecting beauty, capturing it on her canvases.

Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova was born in 1884, into the Lanseray-Benois family, an illustrious Russian artistic dynasty. Her father, Evgeny Aleksandrovich Lansere, was a famous sculptor; he died when Zina was only 2 years old and she knew about him only from the stories of her relatives. Her mother, Ekaterina Nikolaevna Lanceray, came from the famous Benois family of artists and architects.

Children's and teenage years Zinaida Evgenievna passed in St. Petersburg. The architecture and museums of St. Petersburg, and the luxurious park of Tsarskoye Selo, where the family went in the summer, had an influence on the formation of the young artist. Spirit high art reigned in the house. In the Benois and Lancer families, the main meaning of life was service to art. Every day Zina could watch how adults worked selflessly, painted a lot in watercolors, a technique that everyone in the family mastered. The girl's talent developed under close attention older family members: mother and brothers who were preparing to become professional artists. All home furnishings The family fostered respect for classical art: stories from my grandfather, Nikolai Leontievich, about the Academy of Arts, trips with children to Italy, where they got acquainted with the masterpieces of the Renaissance, and visits to museums. In 1905, in St. Petersburg, S. Diaghilev organized an exhibition of Russian portrait painters. For the first time, the beauty of the art of Rokotov, Levitsky, Borovikovsky, Venetsianov was revealed to the Russian public: Venetsianov’s portraits of peasants and the poeticization of peasant labor inspired Zinaida Serebryakova to create her paintings and pushed her to seriously work on portraits.

In 1905, she married Boris Anatolyevich Serebryakov, a neighbor on the estate. They knew each other since childhood and wanted to connect their lives, despite the fact that they were cousins and sister. We had to overcome many obstacles, since they were of different religions and fairly close relatives. After trips to Belgorod and Kharkov to the spiritual authorities, permission was finally received and the young people were able to get married. Boris Anatolyevich was a student at the Institute of Railways and belonged to that part of the Russian intelligentsia who believed that a person should have a “mind and heart in harmony” and that spouses, despite all the differences in interests, should be like-minded. The young couple first went to Paris, and then, upon returning, settled in the family estate "Neskuchnoe" on the border of the Kursk region and Ukraine.

Zinaida Evgenievna loved the Russian village with all her heart. And when you love something, you see only the good and bright in it. The artist wrote that she “fell in love with the vast expanse of the fields, with the picturesque appearance of the peasants, so different from the city faces.” Sketches from rural life appear in her albums.

Her landscapes and sketches are close to impressionism in their purity and sound of colors, in such a way of displaying reality when the world is seen filled with pure inspiration and the joy of life.

Many of their most best works Serebryakova will write, inspired by the images of Russian peasant women. Peasant girls, the harmony of their pure souls and strong bodies, tempered by physical labor and a life close to nature, will become for the artist the standard of that unconditional beauty that Ivan Antonovich Efremov speaks about in “The Razor’s Edge” through the mouth of Ivan Girin: "...Beauty is highest degree expediency, the degree of harmonious correspondence of the combination of contradictory elements in every device, in every thing, in every organism. Therefore every beautiful line, form, combination - this is an expedient solution developed by nature over millions of years natural selection or found by a person in his search for the beautiful, that is, the most correct for a given thing. Beauty is that general pattern that levels out chaos, the great middle ground in expedient universality, universally attractive, like a statue. It is not difficult, knowing materialist dialectics, to see that beauty is the correct line in the unity and struggle of opposites, that very middle between the two sides of every phenomenon, every thing, which the ancient Greeks saw and called ariston - the best, considering measure as a synonym for this word, more precisely - knowing of limits. I imagine this measure as something extremely subtle - a razor blade, because finding it, implementing it, observing it is often as difficult as walking along a razor blade, almost invisible due to its extreme sharpness... The main thing I wanted to say is, this is what exists objective reality, perceived by us as unconditional beauty."

1884

Zinaida Evgenievna Lancere-Serebryakova was born on December 10, 1884 on her father’s estate “Neskuchnoye”, Belgorod district of Kursk province (now the village of Neskuchnoye, Kharkov region, Ukraine).

Father - sculptor Evgeny Aleksandrovich Lanceray (1848-1886), mother - artist Ekaterina Nikolaevna Lanceray (1850-1933), née Benois.

Zinaida is the youngest in the family, she has two brothers: Evgeniy (1875-1946) and Nikolai (1879-1942) and three sisters: Sophia (1880-1964), Ekaterina (1882-1921) and Maria (1883-1962).

1886

Father dies in Neskuchny. The Lanceray family moves to St. Petersburg, to the house of their grandfather - Nikolai Leontievich Benois (1813-1898), academician of architecture. The family spends the summer months near St. Petersburg and Finland.

1898

As a child he spends every summer in Neskuchny.

1900

She graduated from the Kolomna Women's Gymnasium in St. Petersburg.

1901

She entered the Art School of Princess Maria Klavdievna Tenisheva in St. Petersburg, but studied there for only 25 days - until the school closed.

1902

From September to May 1903, a trip with his mother and sisters to Italy (the island of Capri, Rome) for treatment. She spent about two months in Rome.

1903

In the summer she worked in Neskuchny on portraits of peasants (“Types of Kursk Province”). From autumn to 1905 she studied in the workshop of O.E. Braza in St. Petersburg. I started copying works of old masters in the Hermitage.

1905

On September 9, she married Boris Anatolyevich Serebryakov (1880-1919), at that time a student at the Institute of Railways in St. Petersburg. From November to March 1906 she lived with her mother (from December - and with her husband) in Paris. She studied drawing and watercolors at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where she entered on the advice of A.N. Benoit. Returning to Russia, she lived in St. Petersburg and Neskuchny.

1906

Birth of son Evgeniy (1906-1990).

1907

Birth of son Alexander (1907-1999).

1908

A number of significant landscapes were created in Neskuchnoye - “Greenery in Autumn”, “Neskuchnoye. Plowing", views of a blooming orchard.

1909

Painted: the painting “Behind the Toilet”, “Portrait of E. M. Eigel” and tempera “Youth”.

1910

Portraits of O.K. Lansere, M.N. Benois, N.G. and G.I. Chulkov were created. First time participating in art exhibition— “Exhibition of contemporary Russian female portraits” in the editorial office of the magazine “Apollo”, showing early works: “Self-Portrait” (1905) and “Portrait of My Nanny” (1908). The first mention of her in print: in the introductory article by G.K. Lukomsky to the catalog “Exhibition of Contemporary Women’s Portraits” (St. Petersburg, 1910) and A.N. Benois (Artistic letters. Exhibition of female portraits // “Speech”, 1910, January 24). She participated in the VII exhibition of paintings of the Union of Russian Artists in St. Petersburg, where she showed thirteen works, incl. painting “Behind the Toilet”. A.N. Benoit positively assessed her work (Artistic letters. Exhibition of the “Union” // “Speech”, 1910, March 13). Three of them - “Behind the Toilet”, “Greenery in Autumn”, “Peasant Woman” (now: “Young Woman (Maria Zhegulina)”) - were purchased by the Tretyakov Gallery.

1911

In the spring, a trip to Crimea (Yalta, Gurzuf). The paintings “Bather”, “Pierrot”, “Study of a Girl”, “Portrait of E. K. Lanceray”, and the landscape “Before the Storm” were created. Participated in the exhibition “World of Art” in Moscow (portraits of N. G. and G. I. Chulkov). Elected member of the World of Art association.

1912

Birth of daughter Tatyana (1912-1988). “Portrait of E. N. Lanceray, the artist’s mother” was created. Participated in the exhibition “World of Art” in St. Petersburg (“Portrait of N. G. Chulkova”, “Pierrot”, “Bather”, “Study of a Girl”). The Russian Museum acquired the paintings “Bather” and “Study of a Girl (Self-Portrait)” at the exhibition. From the autumn of 1912 to the autumn of 1913 she lived in Tsarskoye Selo (with short trips to Crimea and Neskuchnoye). She painted landscapes and worked on two paintings of the same name, “Bath” (1912 and 1913).

1913

Trip to Crimea (Simeiz). Birth of daughter Catherine. Portraits of B. A. Serebryakov and E. E. Zelenkova were created. Participated in the exhibitions “World of Art” in St. Petersburg (“Portrait of E. N. Lansere”, “Bathhouse”, “Portrait of E. E. Zelenkova”) and Moscow (“Bathhouse”, “Portrait of E. E. Zelenkova”, sketches of the Crimea and Tsarskoye Selo).

1914

The painting “At Lunch” was created. In summer, a trip to Switzerland and Italy (Milan, Venice, Padua, Florence) via Berlin, Leipzig and Munich. At the beginning of World War II, she painted soldiers at train stations and hospitals. Since the end of July in Neskuchny she has been working on the painting “Harvest”. Its first version was created, which was later destroyed by the author (fragments have been preserved - “Peasants. Lunch”, “Two Peasant Girls”).

1915

Finished the painting “Harvest”. She participated in the exhibition of etudes, sketches and drawings “World of Art” in Petrograd (nine works, including “Bathhouse”, 1912). “Portrait of E. E. Lanceray in a papakha” and “Portrait of B. A. Serebryakov” (drawing) were created. She worked on sketches of panels for the restaurant hall of the Kazansky railway station in Moscow: “Turkey”, “India”, “Siam”, “Japan (Odalisque)” (1915-1916).

1916

Participated in the exhibition “World of Art” in Petrograd (both versions of the painting “Harvest (Peasant Women in the Field)”). She worked on sketches, sketches and drawings for the paintings “Whitening the Canvas”, “Diana and Actaeon”, “Bathing”.

1917

Nominated for the title of Academician of the Academy of Arts. The election did not take place due to the start revolutionary events. S. R. Ernst completed a monograph on Serebryakova (published in 1922). “Portrait of B. A. Serebryakov” (drawing) entered the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. I made sketches of the composition “Sheep Shearing”. The canvas “Sleeping Peasant Woman” was created. The painting “Whitening the Canvas” has been completed. V. Dmitriev published an article “Artists” in the Apollo magazine (No. 8-10), in which he also wrote about Serebryakova. Because of the outbreak of the revolution, the family was unable to leave for Petrograd on time; in December, fearing robbery, she moved to the city of Zmiev.

1918

Participated in the exhibition “Russian Landscape” in Petrograd (10 works). She lived alternately in Kharkov and Neskuchny (until November 1919).

1919

In March, my husband died of typhus. The portrait “Boys in Sailor Vests” was painted in Neskuchny. Participated in the First Art Exhibition of the Kharkov Council of Workers' Deputies in Kharkov. Neskuchnoye was looted and burned.

1920

Lived in Kharkov. Since January she worked at the Archaeological Museum at the university. She made sketches of archaeological finds. She created portraits of museum employees (E. I. Finogenova, G. I. Teslenko, V. M. Dukelsky), canvases “On the terrace in Kharkov” and “House of Cards”.

In December he returns to Petrograd. She settled with her children and mother on Lakhtinskaya Street, because... the apartment on the 1st line of Vasilyevsky Island was occupied. Participated in an exhibition of paintings by artists - members of the House of Arts in Petrograd.

1921

She settled with her children and mother in the house of her grandfather N.L. Benois. Served in workshops visual aids department public education. The Society for the Encouragement of Arts donated her works to the Russian Museum: “Before the Storm (Neskuchnoye Village)”, “Portrait of E. N. Lansere, the artist’s mother”, “Beggar (Lukyan from the village of Veseloye)”, “Peasant Girl Polya”. Created “Self-Portrait in Red”, “Katya kitchen table", "Self-portrait with daughters", "Portrait of S. R. Ernst", "View of Peter and Paul Fortress" She painted commissioned portraits. She created a series of drawings and portraits of ballerinas of the State academic theater opera and ballet (1921-1924).

1922

Participated in the exhibition “World of Art” (18 paintings) in Petrograd. V. Voinov noted them in the review “Letters from St. Petersburg. Exhibition “World of Art” (Among collectors, 1922, No. 7-8). The Akvilon publishing house published the book by S. R. Ernst “Z. E. Serebryakova.” Created “Self-portrait (in a white blouse)”, portraits of A. A. Cherkesova-Benois with her son, A. A. Akhmatova, E. I. Zolotarevsky, D. D. Bushen, G. M. Balanchivadze (J. Balanchine), ballerinas L. A. Ivanova and A. L. Danilova.

1923

The paintings “In the Kitchen”, “Tata with Vegetables”, “Herring and Lemon”, “Ballet Bathroom” were created. Snowflakes”, “Portraits of the ballerina E. N. Heidenreich”.

1924

Participates in the exhibition of paintings by the group of artists “World of Art” (11 works) in Leningrad. Created “Self-Portrait with a Brush”, “Ballet Dressing Room (Ballet by P. I. Tchaikovsky “ Swan Lake")", portraits of M. A. Troinitskaya, Tata in a dance costume, ballerinas E. N. Heidenreich and V. K. Ivanova. Participated in traveling exhibition Russian art in the USA and Canada. August 24 departure to France. He will live in Paris until the end of his days. Portraits of A.K. Benois and S.N. Galpern-Andronikova were created. Her paintings were exhibited at the exhibition “The Peasant in Russian Painting. XVIII-XX centuries." in the Tretyakov Gallery.

1925

Trip to London. She worked on commissioned portraits (of the Yusupovs and others). Son Alexander arrived in Paris. Mother and son lived in Versailles, where she painted the park. Portraits of A. Ya. Beloborodov, G. L. Girshman, son of Alexander were created.

1926

Trips to London and Brittany. She painted landscapes of Brittany and Versailles, pastel portraits of fishermen and peasants (“The Old Fisherman”, etc.). Portraits of I. S. Rachmaninova-Volkonskaya, K. A. Somov, S. S. Prokofiev, E. A. Cooper were created. Her works were exhibited at a traveling exhibition of Soviet art in China and Japan (Harbin, Tokyo, Aomori).

1927

Trip to Berlin. She painted commissioned portraits. Personal exhibition at the J. Charpentier gallery in Paris (52 works; portraits, nudes, landscapes, types of Breton fishermen). Participated in the exhibition of the group of artists “World of Art” in Paris (Bernheim the Younger Gallery). E.E., who came on a business trip to France. Lanceray rented a studio for her, her first studio in Paris. Trip to the south of France (Marseille, Cassis).

1928

She painted commissioned portraits. Daughter Catherine arrived in Paris. Participated in the retrospective “Old and New Russian Art” (13 works; landscapes, portraits, still lifes) at International exhibition in Brussels. In the summer in Bruges she painted portraits of the family of Baron J.-A. de Brouwer. Worked in Cassis. Participated in an exhibition of Russian artists in Paris (M. S. Lesnik Gallery).

In December 1928 - January 1929, a trip to Morocco (Marrakesh) at the expense of Baron J.-A. de Brouwer. She created more than 130 works: portraits and genre scenes, landscapes (including “Moroccan Woman in White”, “Marrakech. Figures in the Doors”, “Marrakech. Walls and Towers of the City”, “Marrakech. View of the Atlas Mountains from the Terraces” , “Sunlit”, “Senegalese Soldier”, “Boy Musician”). Personal exhibition (together with V.V. Lebedev) at the Vyborg House of Culture in Leningrad. 100 works were exhibited. A catalog has been published with an introductory article by Sun. Voinova (“Exhibition of paintings by Z. E. Serebryakova.” L., 1929) and N. E. Radlov’s brochure “Z. E. Serebryakova. For the exhibition of the Leningrad Regional Council trade unions"(L., 1929).

1929

She worked on portraits and landscapes. Personal exhibition at the Bernheim-Younger gallery (Moroccan works). Personal exhibition in the gallery of V. O. Girshman in Paris (French works). Trip to the south of France (Nice, Castellane).

1930

She performed commissioned portraits, painted landscapes and views of the Luxembourg Gardens. She participated in the exhibition of Russian painting and graphics in Berlin and the exhibition of the group of artists “World of Art” in Belgrade. Trip to the south of France (Saint-Tropez, Collioure, Monrege). “Colliour” was created. Katya on the terrace", "Port in Collioure", "Colliour. Bridge with goats", "Colliour. A street with an arch." Personal exhibition at the J. Charpentier gallery in Paris.

1931

She performed commissioned portraits. In summer - a trip to the south of France (Nice, Menton). Participated in the exhibition of men's and portrait of a woman and in the exhibition child portrait, organized by the French Association of Artists in Paris (House of Artists). Personal exhibitions (together with D. D. Buschen) in Antwerp (Brescot Gallery, 27 works) and in Brussels (Little Gallery, 26 works).

1932

In February-March, a trip to Morocco (Fes, Sefrou, Marrakech) funded by J.-A. Brouwer and A. Leboeuf, during which more than 200 works were created: among them - “Moroccan in Blue”, “Moroccan Woman in Pink Dress”, “Moroccan in Green”, “Camels”, “Thoughtful Man in Blue”. In summer, a trip to Italy (Florence, Assisi). Participated in the exhibitions “Russian Art” in Paris (Renaissance Gallery) and “Russian Painting of the Last Two Centuries” in Riga. She participated in the exhibitions “Children's faces and scenes” at the B. Weil gallery in Paris and Russian painting in Riga. Personal exhibition at the J. Charpentier gallery in Paris (63 works, of which 43 are Moroccan paintings).

1933

Trip to Savoy (Annecy, Menton-Saint-Bernard). She painted landscapes. Death of mother (E. N. Lansere) in Leningrad.

1934

Participated in a portrait exhibition organized by the French Association of Artists in Paris. Trips to Auvergne (Estaing) and Brittany (Pont-l'Abbe, Lesconil), painted landscapes ("Town of Pont-l'Abbe. Port", "Brittany. Lesconil") and portraits ("Mistress of the Bistro Pont-l'Abbe" , “Young Breton Woman”, “Portrait of a Young Fisherman”). She worked on still lifes and painted sculptures in the Louvre. She worked on sketches of panels for the hall in the Manoir du Relay estate of Baron J.-A. Brouwer in Pomreil near Mons (Belgium). Moving to the workshop in Montmartre.

1935

Participated in the exhibition “Russian Art of the 18th – 20th Centuries” in Prague. Trip to Brittany. She painted sculptures in the Louvre, still lifes of vegetables and fruits (“Fish on Greens”).

1936

She worked on a panel for the hall in the Manoir du Relay estate of Baron J.-A. Brouwer in Pomreuil near Mons (together with her son Alexander, who was four years old). geographical maps). She painted sculptures by J. Pilon and A. Quasvo in the Louvre.

1937

Trips to the south of France (Castellane) and Brittany (Concarneau). She painted a sculpture in the Louvre. The Russian Russian Museum received the painting “Bath” (1913).

1938

Personal exhibition at the J. Charpentier gallery in Paris (40 works; portraits, landscapes, nudes, still lifes, drawings of Louvre sculptures). Trips to England, Corsica (Calvi), Savoy (Aix-les-Bains), Italy (San Gimignano). She underwent major eye surgery. “Portrait of A. A. Cherkesova-Benoit” was painted.

1939

Trips to England (London), Switzerland (Geneva, Adelboden), Brittany (Treberdeen). She painted landscapes and portraits (“Portrait of Countess R. Zubova”). Moving to a house on Campagne Premiere Street in the Montparnasse district.

1940

She painted portraits and nude sketches. She painted portraits, landscapes of Paris, sculpture in the Tuileries Garden and nude studies. German troops occupied Paris. The artist’s connections with relatives abroad ceased.

1941

Participated in the Autumn Salon exhibition in Paris. Portraits of S. Ivanov, B. Popova.

1942

She underwent a major operation. In Saratov, her brother N. E. Lansere died in prison. She worked on portraits, still lifes and landscapes.

1945

In August, a trip to the southwest of France, to the resort of Salies-de-Béarn.

1946

She painted portraits and landscapes of Paris. The Russian Museum in Leningrad acquired the painting “Bathhouse” (1912) from E. B. Serebryakov. Brother E. E. Lansere died in Moscow. Correspondence with children and relatives in the USSR, interrupted by World War II, was resumed. Her paintings were exhibited at an exhibition of portraits of Russian artists of the 18th-20th centuries. in Moscow.

1947

Summer trip to England. Zinaida becomes a member of the Syndicate French artists" Painted “Portrait of S. M. Dragomirova-Lukomskaya”.

1948

Summer trip to England. Painted "Still life with apples and round bread."

1949

She worked on commissioned portraits in Burgundy (Epirie) and Auvergne (Lamothe). Summer trip to England.

1950

A trip to the southwest of France (Salies-de-Béarn). She painted animals, still lifes with flowers.

1951

She painted landscapes and sketches. Trips to England and Switzerland (Geneva, Bellevue).

1952

The paintings “Alexander in a carnival costume” and “Still life with a jug” were created.

1953

Trip to England.

1954

Personal exhibition (together with Alexander and Ekaterina) in her studio on rue Campagne-Première. Portraits of Hélène de Roy, Princess Jean de Merode, were painted. In summer, a trip to Switzerland (Geneva).

1955

In summer, a trip to Switzerland (Geneva). The Tretyakov Gallery acquired the canvas “At Lunch”. The first volume of A. N. Benoit’s book “The Life of an Artist” was published in New York, in which he also wrote about Serebryakova.

1956

She painted still lifes with village bread and sea shells. Portraits of M. E. Kalacheva, the artist’s sister, and Count P. S. Zubov were created.

1957

Trip to Portugal (Cascais).

1958

Summer trip to England.

1960

In Paris, she was visited by her daughter Tatyana, whom she met for the first time after thirty-six years. Tatiana expressed the idea of ​​the device personal exhibition artists in the USSR. Participated in the exhibition “The Benois Family” in London (three landscapes).

1961

“Portrait of S. M. Lifar” was created.

1962

With three works (portraits of S. M. Lifar, I. Shoviret and M. Belmondo) she participated in an evening in favor of Russian invalids of the First World War, organized by Lifar. Her paintings were exhibited at an exhibition of paintings and drawings by artists of the early 20th century. from the collection of F. F. Notgaft in Leningrad. A trip to the Lafite-Rothschild Palace near Bordeaux.

1964

Together with Alexander, Ekaterina and Tatyana, who came to Paris, she selected works for an exhibition in the USSR. The books “Essays on the History of Russian Portraits” were published in Moscow late XIX- early 20th century" with a chapter by I. M. Schmidt about Serebryakova and "Russian genre painting of the 19th - early 20th centuries" with an article by V. A. Prytkov " Genre painting 1900-1917."

1965

Personal exhibition in Moscow ( showroom Union of Artists of the USSR), accompanied by a catalog with an introductory article by A.N. Savinova. It caused a stream of publications and responses in magazines and newspapers: V. P. Lapshina (“Art”), K. S. Kravchenko (“Artist”), A. N. Savinova (“Ogonyok”), T. B. Serebryakova ( “Moscow”), E. Ya. Dorosha (“Theater”), D. A. Shmarinova (“ Soviet culture", etc. Then the exhibition took place in Kyiv (KSMRI).

1966

Personal exhibition in Leningrad (State Russian Museum). After her, the Russian Museum acquired 21 works. An exhibition of her works from the collection of L. M. Rosenfeld opened in Novosibirsk. Her son Eugene visited her in Paris.

1967

At the beginning of the year, Evgeny and Tatyana visited their mother in Paris. She painted their portraits. She died in Paris on September 19, and was buried in the Russian cemetery in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois.

The biography was compiled by Pavel Pavlinov, an expert at the Zinaida Serebryakova Foundation.