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Mariya Bashkirtseva (Marie Bashkirtseff)

Born: Gavrontsi, Ukraine, 24 November 1858
Died: Paris, 31 October 1884
Nationality: Ukrainian
Background: 

wealthy family

Studies: 

with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Bastien-Lepage at Académie Julian (Paris)

Career: 

1877 – settles in France

1880 – exhibits at the Paris Salon under the pseudonyms Marie Constantin Russ and Andrei; publishes article on women’s rights in La Citoyenne (20 February 1880) under the pseudonym Orell

1884 – exhibits The Meeting at Paris Salon; it is purchased by the French government

1887 – posthumous publication of Bashkirtseva’s diary, Le Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff

Travels

Egypt (1856); New York (1871)

Important Artworks: 

Sorrow of Nausicaa, 1882 (sculpture, Musée d’Orsay, Paris)

Spring or April, 1884 (Russian Museum, St Petersburg)