Marina Basmanova

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Marina (Marianna) Pavlovna Basmanova (born July 20, 1938) is a Russian artist [1] and book illustrator based in St. Petersburg. [2]

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Biography

Basmanova was born in Leningrad in a family of artists. Both her father, Pavel Basmanov, a student of Petrov-Vodkin, [3] and mother, Natalia Basmanova, were soviet artists and book illustrators. [4] [5]

She is well known as the partner of Joseph Brodsky, a Russian-American poet, over the period of 1962-1972. Together, they had one son, Andrei, in 1967, but were formally never married despite several marriage proposals from Brodsky. It has been said that Brodsky 'dedicated some of the Russian language's most powerful love poetry to her'. [6]

Work

In the end of 1950's Basmanova became the first student of Russian avant-garde painter, Vladimir Sterligov, who himself was a student of Kazemir Malevich. The first exhibition of her work was organised in 1959 in the apartment of artists Vladimir Sterligov and Tatiana Glebova. In 1960's she began working as an illustrator of children's books, several of which she has illustrated together with her mother, also an illustrator. In 1963 she did a series of portrait sketches of Anna Akhmatova, a Russian poet.[ citation needed ] [7]

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References

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  2. ↑ правды», Елена БЕЗГОДОВА | Сайт «Комсомольской (2018-07-20). "Одинокая и молчаливая: как живет муза Иосифа Бродского в Петербурге". KP.RU - сайт «Комсомольской правды» (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  3. ↑ "Иосиф Бродский и Марина Басманова. Роман в стихах и акварелях | Журнал "Интервью: Люди и события"" (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  4. ↑ "Художники Санкт-Петербурга". art-spb.info. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  5. ↑ Работы художника Н. Басмановой (in Russian).
  6. ↑ Gessen, Keith (2011-05-16). "The Gift". ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  7. ↑ Basmanova, Marianna (4 May 2023). "List of Portraits of Anna Akhmatova". Ahmatova Gallery.
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