Zinaida Serebryakova1884–1967Куст
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Куст” now? Collection: Peterhof Palaces and complex, 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
Details
- Accession number
- ПДМБ 136-ж
In the catalog
Sources
- The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia
- Image: Peterhof Palaces and complex — © Петергоф · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ
In the life of Zinaida Serebryakova
The whole life1902–1903
Travels in Italy: Titian and Tintoretto
She spent 1902–1903 in Italy. According to her first biographer, Sergei Ernst, on this journey she clearly preferred the fullness of feeling of Titian and Tintoretto to the fragile poetry of the primitives.
1910
Self-portrait at the Mir iskusstva exhibition
Her brother Yevgeny encouraged her to enter the self-portrait in an exhibition mounted by Mir iskusstva; it was received with enthusiasm and purchased for the Tretyakov Gallery, which marked the beginning of her success in Russia.
December 1917
Departure from Neskuchnoye: Zmiyiv, then Kharkiv
With the looting of landowners’ families under way, the Serebriakov family moved to Zmiyiv and, in early 1918, to Kharkiv.
21 March 1919
Her husband dies of typhus
In Kharkiv, in a rented flat on Kontorskaya Street, her husband Boris died of typhus; she was left with four children and a sick mother and no means of support. Other accounts say he had been arrested beforehand.
November 1919
Neskuchnoye is plundered and burned
The Serebriakovs’ family estate was plundered and burned (other accounts say as early as 1918); its stores were lost and the family went hungry.
August 1924
Leaves for Paris on a commission and never returns
In August 1924 (other accounts say autumn) she went to Paris on a commission for a large decorative mural; she hoped to hold an exhibition, earn money and return, but remained in emigration for good, cut off from her homeland and her children.
