Lomakina Maria Vladimirovna

In 1913, Lomakina graduated from high school and, until the revolution, studied at the historical and philosophical faculty of the Moscow Higher Women's Courses. Gradually she became interested in painting. Konstantin Korovin, who saw her early sketches, expressed his approval of her, in 1919 she made her debut at the Second Exhibition of paintings and sculptures of the Art Society of the Southern Coast of Crimea, and the critic Sergei Makovsky spoke positively about her self-portrait on display. In the early 1920s, under the mandate of the Yalta People's Commissariat for Education, she worked in the Crimean Commission for the Protection of Monuments. In 1923, the Crimean Union of Artists sent Lomakina to Petrograd to study at the monumental department of the Academy of Arts. She was taught painting and composition by K. S. Petrov-Vodkin, technology by D. I. Kiplik. Her graduation work was the painting project “Protection of Motherhood and Infancy” and the scientific work “Artistic manners of the frescoes of the Church of the Savior-Nereditsa.” Soon after defending her diploma, together with her husband, sculptor A. Petrov, she settled in the village of Bogorodskoye, a famous center of wood carving. Since the early 1930s, Lomakina lived in Zagorsk, only occasionally traveling to her homeland in Crimea. All these years she worked a lot in the landscape genre. Maria Lomakina’s first personal exhibition took place thirty years after her death.