Продано: Picture-M.Volkonskoy Luginin for kurshavelskih oligarchs

[John Preston]

Sale now M.Volkonskoy-Lugininoy "Snow Mountain", 60 to 80 cm, oil on canvas.
Price - 6 thousand dollars.

Volkonskiy-LUGININA Maria Vladimirovna
May 9, 1875 (Paris) - 1960 (place of death not known)
Painter and graphic artist.
Born in a family famous bibliophile Moscow University professor VF Luginina. Art education has received in MUZhViZ, then studied at the Academy Grand Shomer in Paris.
In 1910 participated in the Spring exhibition in the halls of IAH in St. Petersburg. Exhibited his work in the salons of the Tuileries and the National Society of Fine Arts in Paris.
After the October Revolution of 1917 lived permanently in France. Together with his son, artist PG Volkonski, held exhibitions in galleries "Bernheim in Paris (1921)," Dzhevis Art "in London (1923), Saint-Cloud (1923). In 1939 personal exhibition was held Volkonskaya-Lugininoy in a Paris gallery "Allard".
She worked primarily as a landscape painter, wrote the kinds of Spain, Italy, the Crimea, the Caucasus, Odessa, rural landscapes of France.
Works by the artist are mostly in private collections.