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323 - Alexis Paul ARAPOFF (1904/05-1948) (Alexsej Alekseevic ARAPO…
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Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
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Alexis Paul ARAPOFF (1904/05-1948) (Alexsej Alekseevic ARAPOV) Still life with candelabra in front of a window, circa 1920 Oil on canvas, signed lower left. 81 x 65 cm In the same Parisian family since the beginning. Of Russian origin, Arapoff was born into a noble family: his father Pavel Arapoff (1878-1918) was a military doctor, his mother Ekaterina (Catherine), née Tolstoïa, was an eye surgeon and one of the first women to graduate from Moscow University. He spent his youth in Saratov, where his parents lived. In the summer, he spent his holidays at his grandmother's estate near Kowno. He visited Crimea and the Baltic coast. In 1913, accompanied by his mother and sister, he travelled to Germany, Austria and Switzerland, visiting numerous museums. During the revolution in 1918, he completed his studies at the Saratov gymnasium. To escape the food shortage, his family moved to a colony of Volga Germans near Saratov. It was there that Hans Van Bergler, who would later become a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, gave him his first painting lessons. In 1921-1922, he studied with Valentin Youstitski at the Saratov Art School. After Moscow, he moved to Paris, where he met other Russian artists such as Michel Larionov, Nathalie Goncharoff, Ilia Zdanevitch, Jean Pougny and André Lanskoy, and the poets Valentin Parnakh and Boris Poplavski, who dedicated the poem Les Anges de l'enfer to him. He painted landscapes, portraits and still lifes. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1926, the Salon des Indépendants in 1928 and the Salon des Tuileries in 1929 and 1930. He took part in group exhibitions of Russian artists in Paris organised by the Galerie M. Henry in 1927, the Galerie des Quatre Chemins in 1928, the Galerie V. Girchman gallery in May 1929, the Zborowski gallery in 1929, the Zak gallery in 1930, the L'Époque gallery in 1931. In 1927 the M. Henry gallery held a one-man show for him, and all the paintings exhibited were sold. Then it was the turn of the Galerie Percier in 1928 and the Galerie Charles-Auguste Girard in 1930. He met an American girl, Catherine Green, daughter of Richard Thomas Green, who was studying at the Sorbonne. They married in Paris in 1929 and moved to Boston in 1930.
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