View Of Florence Landscape Italy Marie-yvonne Louguinine Wolkonsky Oil Painting XIX - XX

LOUGUININE WOLKONSKY
1875 - 1960
Female painter, fanco-russian school
late 19th early 20th century

View of Florence Oil on canvas
46 x 38 cm
In a frame 58 x 50 cm

Born in Paris on May 9, 1875, Marie-Yvonne WOLKONSKY, during one of the many trips her parents were making throughout Europe. From a very young age, a real attraction to pictorial art made her paint wherever her parents traveled, delightful landscapes, genre scenes, portraits and floral compositions. Without however influencing her, the company of artists such as DUCO CIRELLA in Naples, XIMONA, a Greek painter living in Russia, whom she met when she was a student at the Moscow Academy, did not fail to help her master her art. In 1919, it was the exodus. Leaving Russia with her husband and three children, aboard a British Navy destroyer, anchored in Odessa, she disembarked in Constantinople where, through her paintings, she gives us a living testimony. Then going to Naples, then to France, she would frequent the artists of the Barbizon and Rouen Schools, among whom she had many friends, including Camille COROT. She painted landscapes in a stripped-down style, like that of the young COROT, numerous portraits and still lifes. Although she was a student at the Moscow Academy, she is considered to belong to the French Impressionist School. A member of the Salon des Tuileries, the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Maison des Artistes, and the Society of Friends of Eugène Delacroix, she exhibited at the Galerie Allard, the Salon d'Hiver, the Galerie Charpentier, the Galerie Haussmann and the Galerie Bernheim young, she died in Saint-Cloud in 1960. Her works are signed LOUGUININE WOLKONSKY