Get a Maliavine Certificate of Authenticity for your painting (COA) for your Maliavine drawing.

For all your Maliavine artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Maliavine Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Maliavine painting or drawing.

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We have been authenticating Maliavine and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Maliavine experts and Maliavine certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Maliavine artworks.

Our Maliavine paintings and drawings authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Maliavine certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Maliavine painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Maliavine paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Maliavine collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Philippe Andreevitch Maliavine art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Philippe Andreevitch Maliavine or we will sell it for you.

Philippe Andreevitch Maliavine emerged from a peasant background  to become one of the most original Russian artists of the early years of the 20th Century. At 16 he left his home for Mt. Athos in Greece, having met traveling monks who encouraged his interest in iconic painting. Maliavine worked in the icon workshop at Mt. Athos, but found that the monks merely copied Russian examples. By 1892 he was studying art in St. Petersburg, and in 1894 attended the studio of Ivan Repin, the Russian master who fostered some of the greatest talents in Russian art.

A Peasant Family

Maliavine was soon recognized as a startling and brilliant autodidact, breaking away from academic tradition well before most of his contemporaries. His swirling canvases, dominated by red, were exhibited at the famous Tretyakov Gallery. Inevitably, Maliavine’s radicalism was controversial, though he enjoyed much success before 1910, when tastes changed. His Klimt-like exuberance was less in demand as spare, analytic and abstract concepts swept across Russia. Maliavine was never going to be a Cubist.

Maliavine’s fine painting of the ballerina Balashova shows his mastery of academic skills, yet still demonstrates fidelity to his early palette and robust style. In later life he tended to more academic, realist portraiture. In 1922 he left Russia, no doubt fortunately as he was spared the cruel fate that awaited all artists under Stalin: death or Socialist Realism. He died in Nice in 1940.

Still wondering about a Russian painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Philippe Andreevitch Maliavine.