Camilla Gray, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Camilla Gray

British art historian

Date of Birth: 17-May-1936

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 17-Dec-1971

Profession: writer, historian, art historian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Camilla M.
Gray, also known as Camilla Gray-Prokofieva, (1936 – 17 December 1971) was a British art historian whose book, The Great Experiment: Russian Art 1863–1922 (1962), broke new ground in explaining Russian avante-garde art of the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century outside Russia at a time when the subject was largely unknown outside the country.
It was later revised and expanded by Marian Burleigh-Motley and published in a new edition by Thames & Hudson in 1986. She wrote catalogues and organised exhibitions in London on Kasimir Malevich, Mikhail Larionov, and Natalia Goncharova, and staged an exhibition of Soviet revolutionary art in Britain in 1971 despite misunderstandings at home and official Soviet antipathy to abstract art. In 1969, she married Oleg Prokofiev in Russia, son of the composer Sergei Prokofiev, after the couple had been kept apart by Soviet unhappiness over Gray's views on Russian art.
She died in Russia from hepatitis in 1971 while pregnant with the couple's second child.