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Serge Petrovitch Ivanoff (25 December 1893, Moscow – 8 February 1983, Paris) is a Russian painter.〔(Christies.com ) Serge Ivanoff 〕 == 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 Russian Revolution 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 Russian Academy of Arts).〔I.E. Repin St.Petersburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture And Architecture as part of the Russian Academy of Arts 〕〔Russian Academy of Arts, Main Functions 〕 In 1920, his wife, with their two children, fled the Bolsheviks 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 Pope Pius XI, Serge Lifar, Yvette Chauviré, Arthur Honegger, Edwige Feuillère, Vladimir Kirillovich, Grand Duke of Russia, Princess Vassili, Aleksandr Benois, Zinaida Serebriakova, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff, Paul Valéry, Jacques Fath, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jefferson Caffery. 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 Salon des Indépendants. In 1966, France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs, André Malraux, awarded him a gold medal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Serge Ivanoff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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