Maya Kopitseva

Maya Kopitseva studied at Repin Institute of Arts and Leningrad Art School. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are still life. Places of work recorded in the authority are Saint Petersburg.

• Name — Maya Kopitseva • Birth Name — Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva • Born — 18 May 1924 • Birthplace — Gagry, Abkhazia, USSR • Died — 6 June 2005 • Place of death — Saint Petersburg, Russia • Field — Painting • Training — Repin Institute of Arts • Movement — Realism • Awards — Honored Artist of the RSFSR

Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva was born on 18 May 1924 in Gagry, Abkhazia, USSR. In 1951 she graduated from the Ilya Repin Institute in Boris Ioganson's workshop and among her teachers were Boris Fogel, Leonid Ovsiannikov and Alexander Zaytsev. Since 1951 Maya Kopitseva has participated in several art exhibitions, displaying still lifes, portraits, genre scenes and sketches done from life. In 1951 Kopitseva became a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists and in 2001 was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. She was a wife of well-known Russian painter and art educator Anatoli Levitin, a People's Artist of the USSR. Kopitseva died of thyroid cancer in Saint Petersburg in 2005. Paintings by her reside in the Russian Museum, in public art museums and private collections in Russia, Italy, the U.S.A, Japan, China, France and elsewhere.