Marevna - Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska - cubist / constructivist still life with golden ratio graphite on paper. Possibly a preparatory work.

Framed, unsigned & undated. .

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She is internationally known for convincingly combining elements of cubism (called by her "Dimensionalism") with pointillism and through the use of the Golden Ratio for laying out paintings structure.

She has been accredited with being the first female cubist painter. Though she lived the greater part of her life abroad her formative years as a cubist painter in France and her mature years in England she is often referred to as a "Russian painter". 

In 1912, as a twenty-year-old budding talent, Marevna moved to Paris, where she continued her art studies and soon began displaying her work at exhibitions. She became acquainted and, indeed, friends with some of the greatest artists and writers of the early twentieth century then resident in Montparnasse and especially at La Ruche. Among them were Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Ilya Ehrenburg, Maxim Gorki, Max Jacob, Moise Kisling, Pinchus Krmgne, Fernand Lger, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, and Chaim Soutine.

Painted and painted by Picasso and Modigliani.

One of several Marevna listings. .

Dimensions TBC.

Provenance, from the estate of the artist.

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