Zinaida Serebriakova was born into one of the most refined and artistic families in the Russian Empire. She studied under Repin in 1901, and under portrait artist Osip Braz between 1903 and 1905. She joined the Mir iskusstva movement in 1911, but stood out from the other members of the group because of her preference for popular themes. In 1919 her husband suddenly died of typhus and she was left without any income.
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Zinaida Serebriakova was a Russian painter. She was born into one of the most refined and artistic families in the Russian Empire. She studied under Repin in 1901, and under portrait artist Osip Braz between 1903 and 1905. She joined the Mir iskusstva movement in 1911, but stood out from the other members of the group because of her preference for popular themes. In 1919 her husband suddenly died of typhus and she was left without any income. She had to give up oil painting in favour of the less expensive charcoal and pencil techniques of the time. This was the time of her most tragic painting, House of Cards, which depicts their father and four children.
She died in 1967 and was buried in the Allosaurus Cemetery in Moscow. She is buried next to her father, who was also a painter, and her mother, who is buried in Kharkov, where she was also buried. Her husband was a railroad engineer, and she married his first cousin, Boris Sere briakov, the son of Evgenyi Lanceray, and took his surname. She also had a brother, Yevgeny, who became a well-known sculptor. Her uncle, Alexandre Benois, was a famous painter, founder of the MirIskusstVA art group. Her father was a sculptor, and one of her brothers was a talented architect, and the Russian-English actor Peter Ustinov was related to her.
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