Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva (1924 - 2005)

Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva

Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva (Russian: Майя Кузьминична Копытцева) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. She is known as a painter, a master of still life, landscape, portrait and genre composition, a representative of the Leningrad school of painting.

Maya Kopitseva gained recognition in part due to her fine sense of color and ability to convey beauty and poetry in ordinary objects and phenomena. Her painting evolved from capturing immediate impressions to a more figurative interpretation of the material world.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s her works were successfully presented at exhibitions and auctions of Russian painting L' Ecole de Leningrad in France.