Irina Antonova was born on 20 March 1922 in Moscow, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. She was married to Yevsei Iossifowitsch Rotenberg. She died on 30 November 2020 in Moscow, Russia.
For so many years, we weren't allowed to exhibit what we had in our collections. Renoir, Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne were considered formalistic and bourgeois artists. [describing the Stalin-era emphasis on Socialist Realism in art]