Edited in Luxembourg, 2023, in French, 429 pages, author: Olga Pavlinova, available on Amazon.

More than 200 woman painters with their short biographies, self-portraits, portraits and other artworks dating from before 1917; as well as articles, quotes and testimonies from historians, diplomats and artists of the period.

This book depicts the role of women in society and in art, the borderless pan-European artistic space they were creating since the early 19th century, the artistic ambition of the first women to enter the Academy of Fine Arts in the mid-19th century, or to create the famous Russian avant-garde movement in the late 19th century, and all this to end up facing the women’s artwork in isolation or exile after 1917.

This book does not pretend to be exhaustive, as it represents only part of the research undertaken by the author, but it provides an opportunity to learn more about artists whose art is often forgotten or underestimated, to pay tribute to their talent and courage.

The publication is dedicated to the author’s grandmother, Elizaveta Pavlinova (born princess Obolensky), an artist-painter who suffered the tragedy of losing her parents killed in the Gulag, but who found salvation in her artwork and her family.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Elizaveta Pavlinova (née princess Obolensky, 1922-2003). She was a talented artist with a difficult fate. At the age of 15 she was left without parents, who were murdered in the Gulag. Since 1949, she was married to the artist Piotr Pavlinov (1921-2001). She gave birth to three children and gave them excellent education in different fields of culture: her son Sergei Pavlinov is a painter, her son Nikolai Pavlinov is a cellist, and her daughter Varvara Pavlinova is a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory.

Her colourful landscapes and still lifes are joyful and full of light. She was the author of colorful still life, portraits, landscapes (including series “Abkhazia”, “Russian Estate”, 1960-70s.), teacher, co-author of the book “Artist-designer” (1966), etc.

Olga and Pavel Pavlinov present their new book, edited in Luxembourg, 2021, in French and Russian, 308 pages, 182 illustrations, now on Amazon and in the librairies :

Ventes aux enchères de l’art ancien en Europe et aux Etats-Unis, en 1909-1914, vues par Eugène Lanceray (1875-1946) (French Edition): Pavlinova, Olga, Pavlinov, Pavel: 9798589984668: Amazon.com: Books

“Zinaïda Serebriakova. The world of art” (“Зинаида Серебрякова. Мир её искусства”), 2017, Slovo, 432 pages and more than 200 illustrations. Author: Pavel Pavlinov, art-historian, expert on the heritage of the artistic dynasty Benois-Lanceray-Serebriakova and member of the family (great-grandson of Zinaïda Serebriakova’s brother, Eugène Lanceray).

Эта книга – история замечательного художника, женщины и матери, верной продолжательницы традиций одной из старейших художественных династий России. Рассказывает эту историю член семьи, правнук брата Зинаиды Серебряковой Евгения Лансере, эксперт по наследию художественной династии Бенуа – Лансере – Серебряковых, историк искусства Павел Павлинов.

• Уникальные материалы из семейного архива ;
• Ранее не публиковавшиеся работы Зинаиды Серебряковой, полотна из частных коллекций и небольших музеев ;
• Редкие автопортреты и отрывки из личной переписки художницы, ее друзей и членов семьи ;
• Рассказы о 17 выдающихся представителях художественной династии Бенуа-Лансере-Серебряковых и о местах, где в разное время жила Серебрякова ;
• Полный перечень изданий, посвященных Серебряковой и авторов, изучавших ее творчество ;
• Подробная хронология жизни и творчества Серебряковой.