Ana Tzarev was born Marija Guina in Trogir and her mother was Anka Carev.

[1] Chandler House achieved national success, becoming a chain of ten stores, and was sold in 1986 for $10 million.

[2] In December 2008, she opened the Ana Tzarev Gallery at 24 West 57th Street close to Fifth Avenue, New York.

[1][4] Others laud her work such as Alexander Borovsky, curator of Contemporary Art at the Russian Museum who wrote of her work ..."She [Ana Tzarev] has developed a powerful gestural style with an energy not unlike that of the post-impressionist era: an open colour, a three-dimensional brush stroke – or rather, a fiery haze of strokes drifting optically in space; a triumph of the de-reflective approach, driven towards capturing and mastering nature’s signals".

After they sold their department store business, Tzarev and her husband gave the proceeds to their sons and retired to divide their time between Monaco and Thailand.