Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev - Artist Info

About Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev

Name variants

Boris Gregorioff, Boris Dmitrievich Grigorieff, Boris Grigorjeff
  • Biography

    Boris Grigoriev was a Russian painter and graphic artist. Grigoriev was born in Rybinsk and studied at the Stroganov Art School from 1903 to 1907. Grigoriev went on to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg under Aleksandr Kiselyov, Dmitry Kardovsky and Abram Arkhipov from 1907 to 1912. He began exhibiting his work in 1909 as a member of Union of Impressionists group, and became a member of the World of Art movement in 1913.[1] At that time he also was interesting in literature, writing novel Young Rays.

    Grigoriev lived for a time in Paris, where he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In Paris he was strongly influenced by Paul Cézanne.

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