432 - Olga SOUVOROVA (Russia, born in 1966)

Olga SOUVOROVA (Russia, born in 1966) The Chess Game (1990) Oil on canvas, signed and dated in Cyrillic in the lower right corner. Framed. Small losses and stretched canvas. H. 120 x W. 120 cm. Expert: Maxime CHARRON DESCRIPTION Olga Souvorova was born in 1966 in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) into a family of painters: her father, Igor Souvorov, holds the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. She trained at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (Repin Institute), where she studied in Andrei Mylnikov’s studio of monumental composition. A member of the Union of Artists of Russia, she has been exhibiting since the 1990s, first in her hometown and then in Western Europe (the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Finland), the United States, and China. Her figurative work is recognizable by her portraits in historical costumes, in which the figures and settings draw on the traditions of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo. She draws on the legacy of the Mir Iskousstva movement—a St. Petersburg circle from the early 20th century that cultivated a taste for the 18th century and the theater—and cites Piero della Francesca, Gustav Klimt, and Russian icons among her influences.