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Natalia Petrovna Navashina-Krandievskaya was born in Moscow in 1923. Her mother was the sculptor Nadezhda Vasilievna Krandievskaya and her father was the architect Pyotr Petrovich Faidysh. She studied at the Surikov State Art Instistute in Moscow where I.E. Grabar, D.K. Mochalski and A.A. Deineka were her leading professors. She graduated from the Surikov Institute in 1947. She began exhibiting her works in 1948 and was admitted to the Artists’ Union of Russia that same year. She created portraits of famous contemporaries: writers and poets such as K. Fedin and S. Marshak, actors such as M. Tzarev, E. Shatrova and A. Raikin, scientists such as academician A. Alexandrov, philosophers such as M. Lifshits and many others. Even with these important portraits, she perfers to work in the genre of still life. She wrote an autobiography called “Face of the Time”.
She has shown her work in many All-Union, All-Russian and international exhibitions since 1949. Important shows include:
- ‘All-Union Art Exhibition’, Moscow: 1950 and 1952.
- Personal exhibition, Moscow: 1975, 1984.
Well-known works include:
- “Lenin’s Speech at the 3rd Congress of the KomSoMol (brigade
work)’: 1950, Tretyakov Gallery.
Her works can be found in several important museums, including:
- The Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow
- The A.V. Bahrushin Literature Museum
- The M.I. Glinka Museum of Musical Culture
Her paintings are also in many other museums and galleries in Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerhaijan, Uzhekistan, Ukraine, Belarus, Japan, Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Israel, Canada, and the United States.
Navashina-Krandievskaya lives and works in Moscow.
