Zinaida Serebryakova (née Lancere) was a Russian-born (later French) painter.

In the period until 1917, Serebryakova also actively worked on the village theme. The 1917 revolution found the Serebryakovs in the family estate Neskuchnoye. In 1919, her husband died, she was left alone with her children in Kharkov. In 1920-1924 Zinaida lived in Petrograd, working on a series of ballet scenes from the life of the Mariinsky Theater.

 

In 1924 she received an order from France for a large decorative panel and left for Paris. Leaving for several months for work turned into forced emigration, which lasted 43 years. With the help of Alexander Benois, her two children, Alexander and Catherine, came to France.

During her trips to Morocco, Serebryakova's works reveal exotic plots: she makes a large series of studies and sketches - porters, genre paintings, landscapes. Brower paid all her travel expenses on the condition that he choose for himself some of her works created there. 

Also, Zinaida Serebryakova repeatedly came to England to visit relatives. In an effort to earn money there, she made sketches and sketches, tried to sell her works, painted portraits to order, tried to establish the production of prints from her paintings. 

In London, she negotiated with various studios, workshops for the production of printed graphics, including at the Royal Academy of Arts.