Boris Vassiloff - Artist Info

About Boris Vassiloff

  • Biography

    At the suggestion of Carol Ell of the Seacliff, New York Museum, the following is from the "Record-Pilot" newspaper, December 15, 2000.

    Artist Boris Vassiloff was born on March 24, 1906 to Julia Nikolaevna and Boris Ivanovich Vassiloff in Russia. He died peacefully on Dec. 4, 2000 in Sea Cliff.

    Boris' first teacher was his father, followed by a Russian government school and three years in the best art academy in Leningrad. Being unable to continue his studies and having no possibilities of going to Western Europe, the artist went to Mongolia to his uncle, Simion Vassiloff. From that moment begins the travels of the young painter, never separated from his sketch book and paint box.

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