Bidspirit auction | [1992, New Academy] Bella Matveeva.

[1992, New Academy] Bella Matveeva. Little Fox, 1992, 150x100 cm, oil on canvas, signed and dated by the artist, restoration of cuts, collection quality. - https://raskolnikovgallery.com https://t.me/raskolnikovgalleryspb A painting from the ”A Woman's Self-Knowledge” series [and the exhibition had the same title], in which Matveeva first addressed the theme of the love union of two women [”Little Fox, My” and ”Japanese Screen, ” among others], a theme that once preoccupied Marina Tsvetaeva, Sofya Parnok, and Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal. Portrait of Eva Rukhina. https://raskolnikovgallery.com https://t.me/raskolnikovgalleryspb Bella Matveeva [born 1962] . Professor of the Painting Department at the New Academy of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg), founded by Timur Novikov in 1989. Museum collections: State Russian Museum, Norton Dodge Collection at the Zimmerli Museum (New Jersey, USA), Kwangli Art Museum (Seoul, South Korea), Museum of Modern Art (Avignon), Ekaterina Cultural Foundation (Moscow), and others. https://raskolnikovgallery.com https://t.me/raskolnikovgalleryspb Solo exhibitions: ”Venus' Grotto”, St. Petersburg, 2023 ”SOLO Show”, Art Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2019 ”Bella Vita. Retrospective, Tatyana Nikitina Art Holding Gallery of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2014 The Coronation of Poppea, Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2013 Tribute to Mapplethorpe and the End of the Twentieth Century, Maly Gnezdnikovsky Mansion, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2006 Bird Flu, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Heritage Gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2006 Tribute to Mapplethorpe and the End of the Twentieth Century, All Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2006 The Unstoppable Salon, Moscow, Russia, 2005 Bella Casa, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2004 Cafe des Artistes Gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2002 Girls in the Boudoir, Art Kiosk Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2000 Letters to Belle”, Gallery 21, St. Petersburg, Russia ”One Day Exhibition. Graphics”, V.V. Mayakovsky Library, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1999 ”Erotic Dreams”, V.V. Mayakovsky Library, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1998 La Voyeuse, Chetwynd Stapylton Gallery, USA, 1997 ”Leda and the Swan”, Novaya Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1994 ”Hellas – Greece”, V.V. Mayakovsky Library, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1994 ”Danae – Dyad”, Novaya Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia ”One Day Exhibition”, V.V. Mayakovsky, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1993 Kunstsalon, Salon-Boudoir, Berlin, Germany, 1993 Distinction, Russian Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Pelin Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, 1992 Flora and Fauna, Museum of the Revolution, Leningrad, USSR, 1991