Vera Mukhina

Vera Mukhina
Вера Мухина
Vera Mukhina; portrait by
Mikhail Nesterov (1937)
Born
Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina

(1889-07-01)1 July 1889
Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
Died6 October 1953(1953-10-06) (aged 64)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
NationalityRussian
Known forSculpture
Notable workWorker and Kolkhoz Woman, 1936
Spouse
Alexey Zamkov
(m. 1918; died 1942)

Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina (Russian: Ве́ра Игна́тьевна Му́хина; French: Vera Moukhina; 1 July [O.S. 19 June] 1889 – 6 October 1953) was a Soviet sculptor and painter. She was nicknamed "the queen of Soviet sculpture". She was one of the members of the art association ‘The Four Arts’, which existed in Moscow and Leningrad from 1924 to 1931.