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Mavrina (Lebedeva) Tatiana Alekseevna (1902-1996) ”Popelkovo” 08/09/1981 Paper, mixed media, 16.5 x 21.5 cm. Author's notes - ”Popelkovo” is a chamber piece from the late period by Tatiana Mavrina, in which her recognizable ”festive” intonation is especially clearly manifested: the world is seen as a bright, lively ornament, where rhythm and color are more important than topographic accuracy. The small format retains the feeling of a quick impression — like a road sketch made on the spot and immediately “captured” in memory. The composition is based on a free, almost calligraphic contour and large color relations. Mixed media gives the artist the opportunity to combine graphic clarity of line with dense, resonant patches of color: the landscape seems to be assembled from moving planes — earth, sky, trees — and at the same time remains light and airy. In this manner, Mavrina does not describe nature, but conveys its mood: the warmth of the day, the quiet simplicity of rural space, the feeling of “his” place. The date ”08/09/1981” and the author's notes enhance the documentary and personal nature of the work.: this is not a stylization, but a genuine author's fixation of what he saw and experienced — valuable for a collector both in terms of artistic qualities and the degree of attributive certainty. Mavrina (Lebedeva) Tatiana Alekseevna (1902-1996) Graphic artist, painter, illustrator, set designer. She studied at Vkhutemas — Vkhutein in Moscow (1921-1929) with N.V. Sinezubov, G.V. Fedorov, and R.R. Falk. I traveled a lot to ancient Russian cities. Since 1927, she has worked as a book artist. He was awarded the USSR State Prize for a series of illustrations to Russian fairy tales (1975) and the G.H. Andersen Prize for international contribution to the illustration of children's books (1976). Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1981). The works are kept in the largest museum collections — the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, and the State Museum of Fine Arts.