Marie Vassilieff

Maria Ivanovna Vassilieva (in Russian : Мария Ивановна Васильева), known as Marie Vassilieff, born on February 12, 1884, in Smolensk in Russia and died on May 14, 1957, in Nogent-sur-Marne in France, is a Russian and French painter and sculptor.

She was born in Smolensk, in Russia, in a wealthy family that encouraged her to study medicine. Her natural inclination, however, was towards the arts and, in 1903, she entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.