Artist
Margarita Derzhavina

1931-2020
Moscow, USSR
Textile designer, graphic artist
Studied at the Moscow textile Institute 1949-1954.
During the 1960s and 1970s she regularly visited the studio of Eliy Belyutin, who was famous in the period for his teaching of non-socialist realism methods of drawing and painting (in the period labelled as formalism).
Her personal works of that period are often inspired by Belyutin.
During the 1960s and 1970s she regularly visited the studio of Eliy Belyutin, who was famous in the period for his teaching of non-socialist realism methods of drawing and painting (in the period labelled as formalism).
Her personal works of that period are often inspired by Belyutin.