"chalet In The Mountains" Luguinine - Wolkonsky Marie (1875 - 1960)

Marie WOLKONSKY (née LOUGUININE) (1875, Moscow - 1960, San Remo) Daughter of the famous chemistry professor and bibliophile Vladimir Fedorovich Luguinin, wife of the Most Serene Prince Alexander Petrovich Wolkonsky, mother of the painter Pierre Wolkonsky (1901-1997). Studied in Moscow at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Painted portraits and landscapes of Spain, Italy, Greece, Crimea, the Caucasus, Odessa and France. In 1910, exhibited at the Spring Salon of the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, at the Tuileries Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts. Lived in France from 1917. Exhibited in Paris (Bernheim, 1921 and J. Charpentier, 1929), in London (Jeeves art 1923) and in his own studio in Saint-Cloud. In 1933, participated in the Russian Art exhibition at the Alignan gallery. In February 1939, solo exhibition at the J. Allard gallery. In 1957, last exhibition in his studio in Saint-Cloud. Oil on canvas signed lower right M. Wolkonsky and dated 1921 Format: 46 x 38 cm with frame: 70 x 62 cm