The funds of the Russian State Art Gallery in Sevastopol will replenish the paintings of a student of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

CrimeaPRESS reports:

The Russian State Art Gallery in Sevastopol received a gift of paintings by Maria Lomakina, a student of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. In total, the funds of the new federal museum will be replenished with 56 paintings and drawings from the family collection. The artist’s daughter Marina Lomakina handed over the paintings as part of the exhibition project “#PetrovVodkinLomakina. The Element of Crimea”, dedicated to the work of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and his beloved student. The project ended in Moscow — the exhibition, which included more than 155 exhibits from 28 federal and regional museums, was visited by more than 17 thousand people.

In the process of preparing the exhibition project, we were lucky to meet the daughter of Maria Lomakina, Marina Alekseevna. For the first time, the works of the famous teacher Kuzma Sergeevich were exhibited in the same space as the works of his student. Despite her advanced age, Marina Alekseevna was present at the opening of the exhibition and, as a result of our close cooperation, she decided to transfer part of her mother’s works to the Crimea, to Sevastopol, — the press service of the Government of Sevastopol quotes a researcher at the RGI, curator of the exhibition project “#PetrovVodkinLomakin. Element Crimea» Tatyana Nechaev.

Maria Lomakina entered the history of Russian painting as a representative of «quiet art». She was one of the most talented students of Petrov-Vodkin and adopted a lot from him, but at the same time she created her own original and recognizable pictorial language.

Until almost the 1990s, the artist’s creative heritage was kept in the family archive of her only daughter, who systematized and described the collection, deciphered and prepared her mother’s diaries for printing.

The revival and discovery of the name of the forgotten artist to the general public became possible thanks to the tandem of the heiress Maria Lomakina and the hard work of a whole team of art historians, curators and researchers of the Russian State Art Gallery.

To our emerging congregation, such gifts are of undeniable value. It is noteworthy that we will be the only museum in the Crimea, in the collection of which there will be works by a native of the Lomakina Peninsula. We return the name and creative heritage of the artist to Crimea— says the director of the museum and exhibition center of the gallery Vitaly Zotov.

Among the works donated to the funds of the state art gallery, there are both works of the Crimean period of the artist’s life, and paintings of the 50-60s, written in the city of Zagorsk (now Sergiev Posad).

Maria Vladimirovna Lomakina was born in the Crimea, in the village of Kyzyl-Tash near Yalta (now Krasnokamenka, Yalta region) on May 27, 1896, in a family of St. Petersburg intellectuals. Lomakina made her debut as a painter in 1919 at the second exhibition of paintings and sculptures of the Art Society of the Southern Coast of Crimea. In 1923, the Crimean Union of Art Workers sent Lomakina to the Petrograd Academy of Arts, where she entered the monumental department in the studio of K. S. Petrov-Vodkin, who taught her painting and composition. In the Crimea, the artist painted in the early 30s — in 1931 she was sent to the peninsula to work on the theme «On Tobacco Plantations». But in addition to sketching the work of tobacco growers and winegrowers, as well as sketches for a thematic painting, she created many portraits and landscapes. The first personal exhibition of Maria Lomakina took place thirty years after her death — in 1993 in Moscow.

source: press service of the Government of Sevastopol

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