Olga Wivdenko, symbolist painter, icon painter, decorator and writer, studied in Kiev, her native city, completing her training in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. She returned to Paris in 1919 and worked as a decorator, notably at the Comédie Française. She exhibited at various major salons: Indépendants, Automne, Artistes Décorateurs, at the Decorative Arts exhibition in 1925, and at the 1937 international exhibition. In the 1920s, she participated in archaeological expeditions to Bulgaria and Egypt as an icon painter. In 1953 she settled in Spain and held about ten solo exhibitions in Madrid and Barcelona.