Marie Vassilieff
Mariya Ivanovna Vassilieva (Russian: Мария Ивановна Васильева; 1884-1957), gallicised and known in Western sources as Marie Vassilieff, was a Russian-born painter and set designer active in Paris. She attended the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. She also studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she was taught by Henri Matisse.
Also recorded as Marie Vassiliev · Mariya Ivanovna Vasileva · Maria Ivanova Vasil'eva · Mariya Wassilieff
Marie Vassilieff
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- Name
- Marie Vassilieff
- Born
- 12 February 1884
- Birthplace
- Smolensk, Russia
- Died
- 14 May 1957
- Place of death
- Nogent-sur-Marne, France
- Movement
- Cubism
- Nationality
- Russian Empire and France.
- Occupation
- painter, sculptor, scenographer, puppet designer and artist.
- Fields
- painting and puppetry.
- Movements
- cubism.
- Education
- Académie de La Palette, Imperial Academy of Arts and Beaux-Arts de Paris.
- Teachers
- Henri Matisse.
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Mariya Ivanovna Vassilieva (Russian: Мария Ивановна Васильева; 1884-1957), gallicised and known in Western sources as Marie Vassilieff, was a Russian-born painter and set designer active in Paris. She attended the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. She also studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she was taught by Henri Matisse.
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Biography
Biography
In 1910 she co-founded the Academie Russe in Paris. Several years later she left that school and founded Academie Vassilieff also in Paris. Academie Vassilieff located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris (Montparnasse), became a popular place, and during World War I Vassilieff turned the property into a canteen (cafeteria) serving inexpensive meals to artist in the neighborhood. Vassilieff died on May 14, 1957 in Nogent-sur-Marne, France. Her property, Villa Vassilieff, at 21 Avenue du Maine has served as a gallery, a museum (Musée du Montparnasse), and study center.
Marie Vassilieff studied at Académie de La Palette, Imperial Academy of Arts and Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Henri Matisse is recorded. The recorded working language is Russian and French. The field of work recorded is painting and puppetry. Places of work recorded in the authority are Saint Petersburg, Paris and France. Work by Marie Vassilieff is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Aktis gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle.
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Key facts
• Name — Marie Vassilieff • Other Names — Mariya Ivanovna Vassiliéva • Born — 12 February 1884 • Birthplace — Smolensk, Russia • Died — 14 May 1957 • Place of death — Nogent-sur-Marne, France • Movement — Cubism • Illustration — Marie Vassilieff (c. 1918) in a portrait by Amedeo Modigliani
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Marie Vassiliev, Mariya Ivanovna Vasileva, Maria Ivanova Vasil'eva, Mariya Wassilieff and Marie Wassiljewa. Her recorded languages were Russian and French.
Career and activity
Career and activity
Marie Vassilieff worked in painting and puppetry. Her work is associated with cubism. She worked at Saint Petersburg, Paris, France and Europe.
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Identity
Marie Vassilieff is recorded as painter, sculptor, scenographer, puppet designer and artist.
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1884
Marie Vassilieff was born in 1884 at Smolensk.
1957
Marie Vassilieff died in 1957 at Nogent-sur-Marne.
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Smolensk.
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Nogent-sur-Marne.
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Activity and practice
Marie Vassilieff is recorded as having studied at Académie de La Palette, Imperial Academy of Arts and Beaux-Arts de Paris.
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- 1.Marie Vassilieff:A Splash of Montparnasse Color, New York Times consulté le 17 janvier 2010
- 2.Chronologie, site de la Villa Vassilieff
- 3.Jean-Claude Marcadé : L'avant-garde russe 1907-1927, Flammarion, Paris, 1995, 2007
- 4.Marie Vassilieff : L’œuvre artistique : L’académie de peinture. Editions BVR. Novembre 2017. 978-2-9556296-2-8.
- 5.Benoît Noël. Hommage à Claude Bernès, expert de Marie Vassilieff. 2025.
- 6.Paris : la Villa Vassilieff, nouvel Eden des artistes. Le Parisien. 11-02-2016.
- 7.Pionnières, femmes artistes dans le Paris des Années folles. RMN. 2022. 978-27118-7907-6.
- 8.Marie Vassilieff, artiste transdisciplinaire de l'âge d'or de Montparnasse, retrouve la lumière. France Culture. 2023-02-02.
- 9.Marie Vassilieff, figure de proue des avant-gardes. Éditions Françoise Livinec. 2022. 978-2-919199-30-3.
- 10.Catalogue Pionnières – Artistes dans le Paris des Années folles – Tabula rasa en terra incognita.
- 11.Luc Le Chatelier. Impasse humaine. Télérama - Paris. N°286. VI. 10 juin 1998.
- 12.Nicole Zand. Marie Vassilieff, artiste des avant-gardes et cantinière des Montparnos. Le Monde. 24. 29 août 1998.
- 13.Magali Lesauvage. Harcèlement moral à BétonSalon. Le Quotidien de l’Art. N°1819. 24 octobre 2019.
- 14.Christine Coste. AWARE s'installe dans la Villa Vassilieff. Journal des Arts.fr. 26 mai 2021.
- 15.Inès Boittiaux. Nouveau regard sur l'histoire de l'art. Beaux Arts. 21 janvier 2022.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 39
- Juliette Singer (dir.), Claire Maingon, Benoît Noël et al., Le Paris de la Modernité, Paris, Paris-Musées, 2023.
- Benoît Noël, Marie Vassilief, figure de proue des avant-gardes, catalogue de l’exposition de la Galerie Françoise Livinec - Paris, 2022.
- Mathyeu Le Bal - Préface de Jeanine Warnod, Quand Paris éclairait le monde, Paris, Albin Michel, 1922.
- Camille Morineau et Lucia Pesapane, Pionnières, femmes artistes dans le Paris des Années folles, catalogue de l’exposition du Musée du Luxembourg - Paris, 2022.
- Sylvie Buisson et al. , Les muses de Montparnasse, catalogue de l’exposition du Musée Pouchkine - Moscou, 2021.
- Ileana Cornea, « Marie Vassilief, cubiste en chef », Artension, N°155, mai- .
- Claude Bernès, Camille Chenais et al., Une journée avec Marie Vassilieff, Paris, Bernard Chauveau, 2019.
- Marie Vassilieff, Vassilieff, propos recueillis par Jeanne Hayes - Introduction Sylvie Buisson - Notes d’Anne Egger, Paris, Éditions Paradox, 2018.
- Christophe Zagrodsky, « Marie Vassilieff - Un nouveau livre de Claude Bernès et Benoît Noël », Monts 14, N°57, février- .
- Claude Bernès et Benoît Noël - Préface d’Erik Näslund - Avant-Propos de Claire Maurer-Montauzé, Marie Vassilieff - L’œuvre artistique, L’académie de peinture, La cantine de Montparnasse, Éditions BVR, Livarot Pays d'Auge, 2017
- Benoît Noël, « Daniel Wallard et le fameux sextet de bons peintres », catalogue de l’exposition Hommage à Yvonne Guégan - L’Humanité au féminin, Association Les Amis d’Yvonne Guégan, Caen, 2017.
- Julie Richard, Les poupées de Marie Vassilieff (1884-1957) - Entre Utopie et Dystopie, maîtrise sous la direction d’Annie Gérin, Université du Québec - Montréal, 2016.
- Ada Raev, Marie Vassilieff, Moscou, Iskusstvo XXI Vek, 2015. .
- Benoît Noël - Préface de Dominique Wallard, Fernand Léger - Un Normand planétaire, Sainte-Marguerite-des-Loges, Éditions BVR, 2015.
- Antoinette Fouque, Ada Ackerman et al., Le dictionnaire universel des créatrices, Paris, Des Femmes, 2013.
- Andreï et Vladimir Hofmann et al., Catalogue de l’exposition Les artistes russes hors-frontière, Musée du Montparnasse, 2010.
- Marie-Jo Bonnet, Les femmes artistes dans les avant-gardes, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2006.
- Philippe Le Stum, Margareth Le Guellec-Dabrowska et al., Peintres russes en Bretagne, catalogue de l’exposition du Musée départemental breton - Quimper, 2006 .
- Suzanne Pagé et al., L’École de Paris (1904-1929) - La part de l’autre, Paris, Paris-Musées, 2000.
- Gisela Breitling, Ada Raev, Claude Bernès et Bernard Houri, Marie Vassilieff (1884-1957) Eine Russische Künstlerin in Paris, Catalogue de l’exposition du Verborgene Museum - Berlin, 1995.
- Jean-Claude Marcadé, L'avant-garde russe 1907-1927, Paris, Flammarion, 1995 .
- Billy Klüver, Un jour avec Picasso - 21 photographies de Jean Cocteau, Paris, Hazan, 1994.
- Billy Klüver et Julie Martin, Kiki de Montparnasse (1900-1930), Paris, Flammarion, 1889.
- Solange Prim-Goguel, Marie Vassilieff - Disegni Cubisti (1909-1915), catalogue de l’exposition Galleria Martini & Ronchetti - Gênes, 1983.
- Valentine et Jean-Claude Marcadé, Catalogue de l’exposition L’avant-garde au féminin Moscou, Saint-Petersbourg, Paris (1907-1930), Galerie Artcurial - Paris, 1983.
- Solange Prim-Goguel, Marie Vassilieff de l’avant-garde aux modes (1907-1937), maîtrise sous la direction de Marina Vanci, Paris I, 1982.
- Jean-Claude Marcadé, « L’avant-garde russe et Paris », Les Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, N°2, 1979.
- Yvette Moch, Catalogue de l’exposition Œuvres postérieures au cubisme de Marie Vassileff - Toiles des années 1920 à 1930, au , Galerie Philippe Hupel.
- Waldemar George et André Salmon, Catalogue de l’exposition Hommage à Marie Vassilieff (1884-1957) - Un peintre cubiste méconnu, du au , Galerie Philippe Hupel (36, rue Mazarine - Paris ).
- Jean-Paul Crespelle, Montparnasse Vivant, Paris, Hachette, 1962.
- Youki Desnos, Les confidences de Youki, Paris, Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1957.
- André Salmon, Souvenirs sans fin - Montparnasse, Paris, Gallimard, 1950.
- Marie Vassilieff, La bohème du , mémoires inédites rédigées pour l’essentiel en 1928 puis complétées en 1947 et en 1950, Collection Claude Bernès.
- Nina Hamnett, Laughing Torso, London, Constable & Co Ltd, 1932.
- Michelle Deroyer, « Marie Vassilieff parle des poupées », revue La Semaine à Paris, .
- Marie Vassilieff, « Marie Vassilieff par Marie Vassilieff », revue Paris Montparnasse, .
- Marie Vassilieff, « Mes poupées », journal Montparnasse, .
- Clara Wold, « Paris Presents The Portrait Doll », New York Tribune, .
- Montade [Guillaume Apollinaire], « La Vie anecdotique », Mercure de France, .
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Marie Vassilieff studied at Académie de La Palette, Imperial Academy of Arts and Beaux-Arts de Paris. She trained under Henri Matisse.
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