Navashina-Krandievskaya Natalia
Born in 1923 in Moscow. Her mother was the sculptor Nadezhda Vasilievna Krandievskaya, and her father was the architect Petr Petrovich Faidysh. She graduated from the Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov in 1947. Her main teachers were I.E. Grabar, D.K. Mochalsky, A.A. Deineka, and S.V. Gerasimov. She has been a member of the Moscow Union of Artists since 1948. She created unique portraits of her contemporaries, including writers and poets such as K. Fedin and S. Marshak, actors like M. Tsarev, E. Shatrova, and A. Raikin, scientists including academician A. Alexandrov and surgeon S. Doletsky, philosopher M. Lifshitz, and many others. She works in her favorite genre—still life.
Works in collections
Her works are held in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the A.V. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, the M.I. Glinka Museum of Musical Culture, as well as in galleries and museums in Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Belarus, and many private collections, as well as in galleries and private collections in Japan, Spain, France, Poland, Italy, Germany, Canada, USA, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Israel, and other countries.
Exhibitions and auctions
Participant in many all-Union, all-Russian, and international exhibitions since 1949. Solo exhibitions in Moscow in 1975 and 1984.
Bibliography
In 1997, her autobiographical monograph 'The Image of Time' was published.
