Serge Ivanoff

Sergueï Petrovitch Ivanoff is a painter of Russian origin born with Moscow the February 25th 1893 and died with Paris the February 8th 1983.

Biography

Resulting from a family of Muscovite merchants, Serge Ivanoff intends himself as of his more young age for an artistic career. In 1917, whereas the Russian Révolution makes rage, it enters to the Academy of the Art schools of Saint Pétersbourg. In 1920, his wife flees the mode Bolshevik and takes along to Paris their two children. Two years later, its finished studies, Ianoff is solved to join it. There will remain marked all its life by the horrors of the revolution.

Portraitist of talent, it carries out the portrait of many personalities among which the pope Pie XI, Serge Lifar, Arthur Honegger, Edwige Feuillère, Eleanor Roosevelt… Less known, the sculptor François Cogné was also portraituré by Ivanoff.

In 1950, the painter decides to live with the the United States. He is made citizen of honor of this country one year later. Until the end of the Sixties, he traverses the American continent and carries out nombeux portraits. From return in France, it receives into 1966 with the hands of André Malraux the gold medal of the Salon of Independent the.

Its grandson Alexandre Barberà Ivanoff, born in 1973, is also a painter of reputation.

External bonds

Several works of the painter

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