Kseniya Aleksandrovna Klementievna Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1896 - d. 1984

Kseniya Aleksandrovna Klementievna was a Russian illustrator and graphic designer, specializing in watercolor and printmaking. She loved drawing and painting from childhood and began her fine arts education in primary school. In the late 1910s she attended the M.D.Bershtein and L.V.Sherwood school of painting and sculpture and apprenticed at the studio of A.I.Savinov. In the 1920s, she and her husband lived in Tblisi, where Klementieva developed close relationships, personal and artistic, with several of the artists of "OKNO ROSTA." The couple returned to Leningrad in 1927, where Klementieva would ultimately discover her personal artistic style. Her work from this period shows this influence of fellow artists Rudakov and Charushin, who drew Klementieva into the world of book illustration. Her illustrations of the Russian classics including the works of Turgenyev, Pushkin and Tolstoi became well-loved by many generations of readers.