Oil Paintings, American and European, by King Art
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Russian : Pre 1970 item #1420836 (stock #2691)
King Art
$6,500.00
Provenance: Private Midwest Collection Leslie Hindman Auction,Private Chicago Collection Serge Petrovitch Ivanoff, born Moscow in 1893 -1983. Ivanoff studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1917. In 1922 he went to Paris, escaping the Bolsheviks. From 1960 to circa 1970, he undertook several trips to the United States and eventually returned to France. He painted mostly portraits, among them some well-known names such as Paul Valéry, Eleanor Roosevelt and Pope Pius XI. .