Vera Mukhina1889–1953Девушка с вазой
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Девушка с вазой” now? Collection: State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg. Unknown.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
Museum text in Russian
Повторение: бронза, 1946, отлив 1965 — ГРМ (СО-780).
Варианты: неоконченные экземпляры в стекле — Елагиноостровский дворец-музей декоративно-прикладного искусства и интерьера XVIII–XXI веков. Вера Мухина. СПб, 2009. С. 154.
State Russian Museum
Details
- Accession number
- СО-674
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- State Russian Museum
- Image: State Russian Museum — © State Russian Museum
In the life of Vera Mukhina
The whole life1945
Saves the Freedom Monument in Riga from demolition
In 1945 Mukhina was invited to Riga as an expert on the Freedom Monument, which was threatened with demolition; against the opinion of Party officials she firmly defended it, and the monument survived.
1946 · Award
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree
1947
Academician of the USSR Academy of Arts
Mukhina became one of the first full members of the USSR Academy of Arts and sat on its presidium from 1947 to 1953.
1947
A glass portrait of N. N. Kachalov at the Russian Museum
At an exhibition in the Russian Museum Mukhina showed a portrait of the chemist N. N. Kachalov cast in matte blue glass; her experiments in glass sculpture with Kachalov laid the aesthetic and technological foundations of Soviet architectural glassmaking.
1947
“Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” becomes the Mosfilm emblem
From 1947 Mukhina's sculptural group has served as the emblem of the Mosfilm studio.
1947–1953
Home and studio in Prechistensky Lane
From 1947 to 1953 Mukhina lived and worked in a house in Prechistensky Lane in Moscow.
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