1 NEW Artist Added - FIRST in a Category!

Tatiana Mavrina (Lebedeva). Suzdal. Market. 1957

As promised, I strive to give you a taste of the few Movements which still remain without any representation on the Russian Avant-Garde Gallery. One of these is the Thirteen group.

In May I have laboured long and hard to collect, select and publish the works of the first artist for this Movement. The only one for whom I have ample material is Tatiana Mavrina.

Despite the wealth of material we have on her, the main books ABOUT Mavrina are old, and have many black-and white images. She was most prolific and painted hundreds of paintings, many of which have the same title, and I had to comb and compare hundreds of images and books one to another in the attempt to locate the ones I wanted in color and quality. But boy, was it worth it! Such joy this painter is!

Tatiana Mavrina (Lebedeva). Suzdal. Market.
Illustration for 'Skazka o Mertvoi Zarevne i Semi Bogatyryakh'
(Tale of the Dead Tzarevna and the Seven Mighty Warriors)
by A.S.Pushkin. 1962.

My mother, Tatiana Kofyan has truly loved Mavrina. We have numerous books about her and illustrated by her, children's books and others. Though most of them are of the late period of her work. The work on her page has brought me one surprise after another, as I have only before known her as a children's books illustrator. Moreover, I think my mother preferred the later Mavrina, when she exhibits clear Primitivism qualities. So, a little ahead of you, I have been fortunate to discover and delight in the early Mavrina, totally unfamiliar to me before.

I have placed a page of Tatiana Mavrina's work under the Thirteen group with 220 of her wonderful works!