Description: ART - Musée d'Orsay, Paris - ARTIST Marie Bashkirtseff: "The Meeting" - Painting: Marie Bashkirtseff (born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva; Russian: Мари́я Константи́новна Башки́рцева); was a Ukrainian diarist, painter and sculptor. Bashkirtseff was born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsi near Poltava to a wealthy noble family, but her parents separated when she was quite young. As a result, she grew up mostly abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe, with longer spells in Germany and on the Riviera until the family ended up in Paris. Educated privately and with early musical talent, she lost her chance at a career as a singer when illness destroyed her voice. She then determined on becoming an artist, and she studied painting in France at the Robert-Fleury studio and at the Académie Julian. The Académie, as one of the few establishments that accepted female students, attracted young women from all over Europe and the United States. Fellow students at the Académie included Anna Blińska-Bohdanowiczowa and especially Louise Breslau, whom Bashkirtseff viewed as her only real rival. Bashkirtseff would go on to produce a remarkable if fairly conventional body of work in her short lifetime, exhibiting at the Paris Salon as early as 1880 and every year thereafter until her death (except 1883). In 1884, she exhibited a portrait of Paris slum children entitled The Meeting and a pastel portrait of her cousin, for which she received a mention honorable. Bashkirtseff's best-known works are The Meeting (now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris) and In the Studio, (shown here) a portrait of her fellow artists at work. Although a large number of Bashkirtseff's works were destroyed by the Nazis during World War II, at least 60 survive. This Divided Back Era (1907-15) postcard is in good condition, but shows some edge wear. Stengel & Co., G. m. b. H. Dresden. No. 29214.
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Artist: Marie Bashkirtseff
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Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
Theme: Art
Region: France
Musée d'Orsay: Paris
Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva: Ukrainian diarist, painter and sculptor
Type: Printed (Lithograph)
Features: Panoramic
Subject: Children & Infants
Postage Condition: Unposted
Era: Divided Back (c. 1907-1915)
Title: The Meeting
