Icons from the collection of Tatyana Mavrina (1900–1996) in the Department of Private Collections of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

Abstract

25 icons from the collection of the artist Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina (1900–1996) entered the Department of Private Collections of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in 1994–1997. The collection is distinguished by a creative approach in its formation. Most of the icons are of a folk character, perfectly combined with the Russian spinning wheels of the 19th century, which preserve ancient Russian traditions, or watercolor works by T.A. Mavrina. The study presents several icons from the collection of the artist Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina. They allow you to see the collector's desire to collect bright examples of ancient Russian icon painting of the 15th–17th centuries. Some of the icons were before mentioned in art research (belt images of the archangels Michael and Gabriel from the Deesis Rank, the icon “The Battle between Novgorod and Suzdal”), while the icon “Mother of God enthroned and Nikola Mozhaisky with some saints on the fields” is described in detail for the first time. This article covers only part of the study of iconography from the of Tatyana Mavrina collection necessary for the introduction to the scientific circle of the samples of Russian icon painting of the 15th–17th centuries.