Valentin Serov : drawings and paintings
 
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Figurative painters | Valentin Serov
The artist Valentin Serov was born in to the family of a famous Russian composer Alexander Serov. In 1871 his father died, and in 1872-73 he with his widowed mother, lived in Munich, where he had lessons from the artist K. Kepping. In 1874, they moved to Paris, where Valentin regularly visited the studio of Ilya Repin, who was very fond of the little boy. He was lucky in getting a professional education from early childhood from the best Russian artists. At the age of 15 Serov entered Academy of Arts in the class of professor Pavel Tchistykov.
Serov tried himself in different genres: he was a beautiful landscape painter in a more sensuous and less nostalgic vein than another teacher of his, Isaac Levitan.
Serov became the most successful and brilliant portraitist in Russia of the 1890s and first decade of the 20th century.In 1903, he was elected the academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Serov died in 1911.
Alex Kanevsky Cong Hua Lu Davoud Emdadian David Hockney Dan Thompson Golucho Jan Esmann John Sargent Jordan Wolfson Jeffrey T. Larson Jennifer Anderson Kathe Kollwitz Kent Williams Lucian Freud Mohsen Irani Maya Kulenovic Mojgan Najafi Nick Lepard Olga Boznanska Qiang Huang Reza Hedayat Scott Burdick Siavash Mahvis Tiina Heiska Vania Comoretti Vahid Chamani Valentin Serov Yue Minjun
