f - SERGEI PETROVICH IVANOV, 1893-1983

Ivanov studied at the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and the Imperial Academy of Arts, and established his career in Paris with two series of works entitled ‘Cathedrals of France’ and ‘Hotel Druot’. In the 1950s he lived in the United States and travelled throughout the Americas, before returning to Paris in the 1960s. He participated in numerous exhibitions and was best known for his portraits of such major arts figures as Alexander Benois, Serge Lifar and Vyacheslav Ivanov, and leaders of the Catholic Church, including Pope Pius IX (1937).