Tatiana LOGUINE (Ukraine, 1904-1993) Lot n° 118

Still life with fish, 1939. Oil on panel signed and dated upper left "T.Loguina". 47 x 93 cm. Born in Sevastopol (Russian Empire) into a Jewish family, Tatiana Hochbaum emigrated with her parents after the Russian Revolution. She settled in Paris in 1920. After graduating in chemistry, Tatiana decided to devote herself to painting. In 1930, she met Natalia Goncharova and Michel Larionov, and became their pupil. She took the pseudonym Loguina, Loguine or Loguinova and worked at the time in a figurative style close to Soutine. She studied with Gleizes in Lyon. At the same time, she attended the Academy of Painting recently founded in Paris by Tatiana Lvovna Soukhotina, daughter of Leo Tolstoy, where renowned painters such as Nicolas Millioti and Constantin Somov taught. There, she met icon painters Georges Ivanovitch Kroug (the future monk Gregory) and Léonide Ouspensky, whose studio she shared. She moved towards more abstract painting. She is buried in the Russian cemetery in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essone). Tatiana Loguine published a fine illustrated work on Goncharova and Larionov in the 1970s.