Serge Petrovitch Ivanoff (25 December 1893,

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– 8 February 1983,

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) was a Russian

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Biography

The son of a family of Moscovite merchants, Serge Ivanoff was artistic from a young age. On his parents' move to St. Petersburg he took the opportunity for further studies, and contact with Europe. In 1917, while the

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raged, he entered what was then the ''Higher Arts College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at the Imperial Academy of Arts'' (which was to become, by 1992, the ''I.E. Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture'', subordinated within the

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).Russian Academy of Arts, Main Functions In 1920, his wife, with their two children, fled the

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to Paris. Two years later, having finished his studies and forever marked by the horrors of the revolution, Serge joined them in Paris. A talented portraitist, he executed the portraits of many personalities, among which were the

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, Princess Vassili,

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, Vyacheslav Ivanov,

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. Among the lesser known, Ivanoff also painted: the sculptor François Cogné
Cogné, in French
, American designer and artist Irina Belotelkin, and art supply merchant Herman Flax. In 1950, Ivanoff moved to the United States; one year later he became an honorary citizen. For over a decade he traveled across the American continent, executing many portraits. At the end of the 1960s, he returned to France. He was a member of the

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. In 1966, France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs,

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, awarded him a gold medal.

References

Portrait of Pius XI (1939). The French-language version of this page (

Serge Ivanoff Serge Petrovitch Ivanoff (25 December 1893, Moscow – 8 February 1983, Paris) was a Russian painter. Biography The son of a family of Moscovite merchants, Serge Ivanoff was artistic from a young age. On his parents' move to St. Petersburg he ...

) with adjustments (see Talk:Serge Ivanoff).

External links

Website of the painter.

Saint Petersburg Encyclopaedia
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