Eugénie Loutchinsky

EUGÉNIE LOUTCHINSKY (Russia, 1887- Belgium, 1974).
Untitled.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 60 x 50 cm.
Eugénie Loutchinsky was a Russian painter trained in her native city and in Rome, whose career was marked by exile and international projection. After emigrating to Finland in 1917, where she exhibited in Helsinki, she settled in Paris in 1924, maintaining since then an intense relationship with Spain and Belgium. Specializing in portraiture, the genre that brought her the greatest recognition, she also cultivated still life and, more occasionally, landscape.
In 1925 she traveled to Menorca and Mallorca, initiating a regular presence in the Iberian Peninsula that included exhibitions in Andalusia, Valencia and Barcelona. His consecration came in 1929 at the Salon des Artistes Français, where the portrait of Cardinal Mercier consolidated his prestige as a fine psychological interpreter, a quality highlighted by Ricardo Baroja. Between 1931 and 1933 she lived in Valencia, and in 1935 and 1936 she exhibited at the Galerías Laietanes in Barcelona, receiving praise for her mastery of light and matter.
Arrested and deported to France in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, an episode in which part of her work was lost, she continued her career in Paris under difficult conditions.