Serge Ivanoff

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Serge Petrovitch Ivanoff ( Russian Сергей Петрович Иванов , Sergei Petrovich Ivanov ; born December 25, 1893 , Moscow , † February 8, 1983 , Paris ) was a Russian painter.

biography

Ivanoff was the son of a Moscow merchant family. From 1917 he attended the St. Petersburg Academy for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture . In 1922 he fled from the Bolsheviks to Paris, where his wife and children had been for two years. From 1950 to the late 1960s, Ivanoff toured the United States before returning to France. He was a member of the Société des Artistes Indépendants .

Serge Ivanoff mainly created portraits in the style of the Russian school. Including images of numerous personalities, such as Vladimir Kirillowitsch Romanow , Paul Valéry , Eleanor Roosevelt , Jefferson Caffery , Lord Dunsany or Pope Pius XI .

literature

  • La Famine en Russie Bolcheviste ( “The Famine in Bolshevik Russia” ), Serge Ivanoff; Nouvelle Librairie Nationale, Paris, 1924
  • Atelier Serge Ivanoff , Hôtel Drouot, Paris 1988
  • Serge Ivanoff, Ambassade de Russie à Paris - exhibition catalog, May 2006.

Illustrated books

Individual evidence

  1. Christies.com Serge Ivanoff
  2. ^ Musée Arménien de France

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