Sleeping Peasant Girl [Serebryakova]

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Sleeping Peasant Girl. Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (Зинаида Евгеньевна Серебрякова), 1884-1967, was a Russian painter during the Modernist period. She was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye (Нескучное) near Kharkov in the Russian Empire (Kharkov is located in the northeastern part of Ukraine near the Russian border). Her father, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Lansere (1848–1886), was a sculptor and her mother, Yekaterina Lansere, was a painter and came from the artistic Benois family. Her grandfather, Nicholas Benois, was a prominent architect, chairman of the Society of Architects and member of the Russian Academy of Science. From 1914 to 1917, Serebriakova produced a series of pictures on the theme of Russian rural life including Peasants (1914–1915, Russian Museum) and, this one, Sleeping Peasant Girl (1917, now in a private collection).

Mounted within a simple wooden frame. About 7½" x 9½". 

This replica was skillfully hand painted in Russia by Igor Viktorovich Shepel, who was born in 1961 in the city of Rostov-on-the-Don. From 1978-1984 he studied at the Rostov College of Arts (named after Mitrofan Borisovich Grekov 1882-1934, founding father of Soviet military theme and panoramic painting). Shepel is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia and participates in many regional and personal exhibitions. He works and teaches at the Grekov Art School. He specializes in museum quality art done in oil, Russian masterpiece replicas as well as replicas of Western masters, both complex and simple. He is especially fond of painting landscapes as well as renditions of famous Russian icons. Many of his works are in museums, galleries and private collections in Russia, Germany, Brazil, and Canada.