Anna Leporskaia: zhivopis', grafika, farfor (Anna Leporskaia: painting, drawing, porcelain), 9785933327066
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2021. Sewn cl. From her student days to her mature period as a porcelain designer, Anna Leporskaia associated with major figures of Russian modernism. She trained in the early 1920s at the Academy of Fine Arts and GINKHUK (Gosudarstvennyi institut khudozhestvennyi kul'tury, State Institute of Artistic Culture) with Kazimir Malevich and Vera Ermolaeva. Later she collaborated with Ivan Suetin at the Leningrad Porcelain Factory, and a photo shows her beside Suetin upon the completion of an enormous vase depicting Stalin. As a chance archivist, she played a key role preserving works of the avant-garde (recently donated to the Russian Museum). Published in this Russian Museum exhibition catalogue are paintings, drawings, and works of porcelain from the 1920s to the 1970s by Leporskaia, which show a command of different genres, techniques and styles of the avant-garde period. Her portraits done during the blockade of Leningrad are powerful depictions of misery, and her Suprematist designs for porcelain stand out for her ability to translate theory into form. 119 p., 23 x 25 cm, approx. 100 color illus., Rus. Item #4135
ISBN: 9785933327066
The drawings and watercolors published in this Russian Museum catalogue come from a 2017 gift to the museum — an archive of over 1000 graphic works and thousands of written documents by Kasimir Malevich, Anna Leporskaia, Nikolai Suetin, and Il'ia Chashnik, which were preserved by Anna Leporskaya, a student of Malevich in the 1920s at Ginkhuk (State Institute of Artistic Culture). Leporskaya and Nikolai Suetin, who together with Leporskaya studied with Malevich, were instrumental in preserving the archive after Malevich’s arrest in 1930 — they apparently saved the works and documents from being burnt by fearful colleagues. After Leporskaya’s death, the archive was held by her foster daughter Nina Suetina, and her heir Raisa Strimaitis, who dontated the materials to the Russian Museum.
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