At the Dressing-Table

At the Dressing-Table. Self-Portrait
Russian: За туалетом. Автопортрет
Artist Zinaida Serebriakova
Year 1909 (1909)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 75 cm × 65 cm (30 in × 26 in)
Location Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

At the Dressing-Table. Self-Portrait (Russian: За туалетом. Автопортрет) is a 1909 painting by Russian painter Zinaida Serebriakova. The painting is in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. Its size is 75 × 65 cm.[1]

At the Dressing-Table was drawn by Serebriakova in 1909 while she was living near Neskuchnoye, Kursk Governorate[2] (now is a part of Kharkiv Oblast of Ukraine). According to Serebriakova, the winter came early in that year, there was a lot of snow, but it was warm in the house, so "she started to paint herself in the mirror, entertaining by drawing different small things from her dressing-table".[3][4]

On the insistence of Eugene Lanceray, her brother, Serebriakova sent At the Dressing-Table to Saint-Petersburg. It was exhibited at the 7-th exhibition of Union of Russian artists, which moved from Moscow in the beginning of 1910.[5] The painting was well received by the public and art critics. In particular, a painter Valentin Serov called it a "very cute and fresh thing",[6] while a painter and critic Alexandre Benois wrote that Serebriakova "gave to Russian public such a wonderful gift, such a "smile from ear to ear", that one cannot fail to thank her for it".[7][8][9] Right after the exposition the painting was bought by the Tretyakov Gallery.[10]

The self-portrait At the Dressing-Table is considered as one of the most important works of Serebriakova along with "Bath-house" (1913, Russian Museum), "Harvest" (1915, Odessa Art Museum) and "Whitening canvas" (1917, Tretyakov Gallery).[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Serebryakova, Zinaida Yevgenyevna — At the Dressing-Table. Self-Portrait". The Tretyakov Gallery.
  2. ↑ Knyazeva 1979, p. 38—50.
  3. ↑ Knyazeva 1979, p. 52.
  4. ↑ Rusakova 2008, p. 40.
  5. ↑ Knyazeva 1979, p. 55.
  6. ↑ Efremova 2006, p. 7.
  7. ↑ Knyazeva 1979, p. 57.
  8. ↑ Savinov 1973, p. 17.
  9. ↑ Evstratova 2013, p. 466.
  10. ↑ Rusakova 2008, p. 45.
  11. ↑ Knyazeva 1979, p. 7.

Literature

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  • Evstratova, E. N. (2013). 500 сокровищ русской живописи (in Russian). Moscow: OLMA. ISBN 9-785-373-04169-0.
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