Maya Kopitseva

Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva
Born	May 18, 1924 Gagry, Abkhazia, USSR
Died	June 6, 2005 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Field	Painting
Training	Repin Institute of Arts
Movement	Realism
Awards	Honored Artist of the RSFSR

Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva (Russian: Ма́йя Кузьми́нична Копы́тцева; May 18, 1924, Gagry, Abkhazia, USSR - June 6, 2005, Saint Petersburg, Russia) - Soviet Russian painter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, lived and worked in Leningrad - Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation),^[1] regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,^[2] most famous for her still life painting.

Biography

Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva was born May 18, 1924 in Gagry, Abkhazia, USSR.

Tea service on the green table-cloth, 1958

In 1951 Maya Kopitseva graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Boris Ioganson workshop. Pupil of Boris Fogel, Leonid Ovsiannikov, Alexander Zaytsev.

Since 1951 Maya Kopitseva has participated in Art Exhibitions. She painted still lifes, portraits, genre scenes, sketches done from the life.

Maya Kopitseva was a member of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists since 1951.

In 2001 Maya Kopitseva was awarded an honorary title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva died in Saint Petersburg in 2005. Paintings by Maya Kopitseva reside in State Russian Museum, in the Art museums and private collections in the Russia, Italy, in the U.S., Japan, China, and throughout the world^{[citation needed]}.

See also

• Leningrad School of Painting
• List of Russian artists
• List of 20th century Russian painters
• List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists

References

1. ^ Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 1.- Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. - p.535.
2. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 15, 20, 21, 24, 362, 388-397, 399-401, 404-407.

Gallery

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  Tea-service on the green table-cloth. 1958

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  At the Bath-house. 1954

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  Still life with bananas. 1975

Bibliography

• Saint-Petersbourg - Pont-Audemer. Dessins, Gravures, Sculptures et Tableaux du XX siecle du fonds de L' Union des Artistes de Saint-Petersbourg. - Pont-Audemer: 1994. - p. 89, 93, 108.
• Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s. - London: Izomar, 1998. ISBN 0953206106, ISBN 978-0953206100.
• Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 15, 20, 21, 24, 362, 388-397, 399-401, 404-407. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.

External links

• Maya Kopitseva on the "Unknown Socialist Realism. Quests and Discoveries".
• Sergei V. Ivanov. The Leningrad School of painting. Historical outline.
• Chronology of the Leningrad School of painting.

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Name	Kopitseva, Maya
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Date of birth	May 18, 1924
Place of birth	Gagry, Abkhazia, USSR
Date of death	June 6, 2005
Place of death	Saint Petersburg, Russia