Aleksandre SÉRÉBRIAKOFF (1907-1995) - Lot 14

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Aleksandre SÉRÉBRIAKOFF (1907-1995) - Lot 14
Aleksandre SÉRÉBRIAKOFF (1907-1995) Corner of rue Saint-Médard and rue Mouffetard, 1929 Watercolor and gouache signed, located and dated at the bottom of the sheet 47.5 x 62.5cm (view) Our work, dated 1929, is part of a series of views of Paris painted when the artist was just 25 years old. Between 1926 and 1929, Sérébriakoff worked mainly as an illustrator for book and magazine publishing, and as an engraver. In the 1930s, he was commissioned to produce a series of geographical maps to decorate exhibitions at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and for the 1931 Colonial Exhibition at the Musée des Colonies in Paris. From the 1940s onwards, he specialized in particularly detailed "portraits of interiors", revealing to the general public the rare talent of this watercolorist endowed with an uncommon sense of observation. The artist also painted some of the most famous balls of the day (the Palais Labia ball in Venice in 1951, or the Oriental Ball at the Hôtel Lambert in 1969), designed store and home decorations and practiced the art of trompe-l'œil. He also designed icon frames for Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky Cathedral in Paris. Alexandre Sérébriakoff was born into a family of artists. His mother, Zinaïda Sérébriakoffa, was the first Russian woman to be recognized as an important painter. She was related to the Benois, a dynasty of Russian artists who emigrated from France in the 18th century. Alexandre's great-grandfather was the architect Nicolas Benois, and his great-uncle was the painter, decorator and set designer Alexandre Benois, founder of the Mir Iskousstva and friend of Serge de Diaghilev. His grandfather Eugène was a sculptor. One of his uncles, Eugène Lanceray, is a sculptor, painter and graphic designer, while the other, Nicolas Lanceray, is a well-known architect. Alexandre Sérébriakoff was seven years old when the October Revolution broke out. His father, Boris, was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks and died of typhus in 1919. His mother emigrated alone to Paris in 1924, where Alexandre began a career as a painter and interior decorator.
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