Natalya Iljina
FOUNDATION “GRANY. ART - CRYSTAL - BRUT” PRESENTS
Natalya Ilyina, Olga Kovaleva
The Artist’s Wife: Olga Serova
#3 2015 (48)
The Department of Manuscripts of the Tretyakov Gallery has about one hundred letters written by the Russian artist Valentin Alexandrovich Serov to his wife Olga Fyodorovna Serova. Purchased from the couple’s daughter Olga Valentinovna Serova in the 1930s, they form a key part of the great artist’s documentary heritage, and although his wife’s letters have not survived, the collection is testimony to the huge affection Serov felt towards his life companion.
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EXCLUSIVE PUBLICATIONS Natalya Iljina №1 2012 (34) The title of chapter six of "My Life in Paris" from the memoir of Ivan Mozalevsky, a well-known artist and draughtsman (the original is kept in the Manuscript Department of the Tretyakov Gallery) tells the story of the complicated relationship between Korovin and Ivan Kreitor. The excerpt published here describes dramatic events in the life of the outstanding Russian artist Konstantin Korovin, including the loss of his works that he had specifically selected for a personal exhibition1 at a time when his life in immigration was difficult both financially and emotionally. |
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