French art historian, she also holds a Russian literature Agrégation and a doctorate in Slavic studies. She published several articles for academic periodicals, and four monographs in french and english about the russian painter Sergei Chepik, to whom she got married in 1992. She participated to Chepik Art book ''La Garde Blanche de Boulgakov''. She also published a critical overview work about Maximilian Volochine (2002), the french translation of Volochine's writing about art (2008), and the bilangual Russian-French catalogue of the Volochine exhibition she organized in 2010. She is president of The Sergei Chepik Charity Trust that she created in 2013.