Publications
Books, monographs, exhibition catalogues, and family publications that support research on Zinaida Serebriakova and the Benois-Lanceray-Serebriakova artistic dynasty.
How This Bibliography Works
This page is a research guide, not a shop. It brings together the monographs, museum catalogues, and historic publications that readers may need to locate through libraries, museums, or the Collection.
Each reference belongs to a wider research network: artworks, exhibitions, family artists, source notes, and provenance questions. The bibliography gives readers a stable way into that network.
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Reader Pathways
Use the bibliography by topic: core art-historical references, publications on family artists, and exhibition catalogues that document how Serebriakova's work has been shown over time.
Start with Ernst, Rusakova, and the modern art album before moving into exhibition catalogues.
BiographyAlexander, Ekaterina, and the Serebriakoff family publications belong beside the dynasty pages.
Family dynastyCatalogues help establish exhibition history, comparative images, and provenance questions.
Research servicesMonographs & Core References
A lifetime monograph and one of the earliest sustained studies of Serebriakova's work. It remains important for understanding how the artist was viewed before emigration and before later Soviet retrospectives.
- Authors:
- Sergei Ernst
- Year:
- 1922
- Extent:
- 156 pages
- Publisher:
- Aquilon, Petrograd
- Languages:
- Russian
A major Russian-language reference work on Serebriakova's biography, artistic development, and place in twentieth-century Russian art.
- Authors:
- Alla Rusakova
- Year:
- 2006
- Extent:
- 312 pages
- Publisher:
- Iskusstvo-XXI vek, Moscow
- Languages:
- Russian
A visual reference album used in the Collection's research archive for reproductions, chronology, and comparison across periods of the artist's work.
- Authors:
- Various contributors
- Year:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 146 pages
- Publisher:
- Russian publisher
- Languages:
- Russian
Family Artists
A focused publication on Alexander Serebriakoff, Zinaida's son, whose Paris watercolours and decorative work continued the family's artistic line in emigration.
- Authors:
- Zinaida Serebriakova Foundation
- Year:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 70 pages
- Publisher:
- Fond Zinaidy Serebryakovoy, Moscow
- Languages:
- Russian, French
A centenary publication on Ekaterina Serebriakova, artist, interior designer, memoirist, and one of the key custodians of Zinaida's Paris archive.
- Authors:
- Various contributors
- Year:
- 2013
- Extent:
- 122 pages
- Publisher:
- Family collection
- Languages:
- French, Russian
A shorter reference publication on Ekaterina's biography and works, useful as a companion to the larger 2013 volume.
- Authors:
- Various contributors
- Year:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 26 pages
- Publisher:
- Family collection
- Languages:
- French, Russian
A family publication documenting the Serebriakoff branch, its artistic inheritance, and the Paris-side memory of the family.
- Authors:
- Serebriakoff family
- Year:
- 2014
- Extent:
- 82 pages
- Publisher:
- Private publication
- Languages:
- French
Exhibition Catalogues
A publication devoted to Serebriakova's Moroccan trips and the portraits, figure studies, landscapes, and street scenes that became one of her most vivid post-emigration bodies of work.
- Authors:
- Anastasia Nikolaeva, Various contributors
- Year:
- 2013
- Extent:
- 120 pages
- Publisher:
- Serebriakova Foundation, Moscow
- Languages:
- Russian, English
A recent Paris-period catalogue connected with the 2024-2025 exhibition in Paris, built around the French years and the centenary of Serebriakova's arrival in France.
- Authors:
- Zinaida Serebriakova Foundation
- Year:
- 2025
- Extent:
- 30 pages
- Publisher:
- Centre Spirituel et Culturel Orthodoxe Russe, Paris
- Languages:
- French, Russian
A compact catalogue presenting Serebriakova's French period, including portraits, landscapes, nudes, mythological subjects, and travel works from France, Italy, and Switzerland.
- Authors:
- Zinaida Serebriakova Foundation
- Year:
- 2024
- Extent:
- 54 pages
- Publisher:
- Paris exhibition publication
- Languages:
- French
A bilingual museum catalogue with essays on Serebriakova's life, the Benois-Cavos-Lanceray family background, and the wider European context of her work.
- Authors:
- Anastasia Nikolaeva, Pavel Pavlinov
- Year:
- Not dated in the archive file
- Extent:
- 86 pages
- Publisher:
- Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
- Languages:
- Spanish, English
Catalogue for the 2017 retrospective, one of the key modern museum presentations of Serebriakova's full career.
- Authors:
- State Tretyakov Gallery
- Year:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 280 pages
- Publisher:
- State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- Languages:
- Russian
Catalogue connected with the Russian Museum collection, important for tracking museum holdings and the artist's reception in Russia.
- Authors:
- State Russian Museum
- Year:
- 2014
- Extent:
- 200 pages
- Publisher:
- State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
- Languages:
- Russian
A historic retrospective catalogue from the late Soviet period, useful for comparing how Serebriakova's work was framed before the major post-Soviet exhibitions.
- Authors:
- State Tretyakov Gallery
- Year:
- 1986
- Extent:
- 156 pages
- Publisher:
- State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- Languages:
- Russian
Access and Research
The bibliography is a reference guide; the books themselves can be consulted through libraries, museums, and publishers. Researchers can contact the Collection for reference questions, rights, provenance, and attribution enquiries.
For a work attributed to Zinaida Serebriakova, the bibliography should be used together with the catalogue, provenance records, expert examination, and family archive documentation.