Nicolas Poliakoff - Artist Info

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    Nicolas Poliakoff

    1889-1976

    Born in Ukraine on July 22, 1899, he first trained at the School of Fine Arts in Belgrade (Yugoslavia), which he attended from October 1921 to July 1925. In October 1925, he arrived in Paris where he became a student of André Lhote in his Academy of Painting.

    From 1926, he is massier of this Academy and assistant of André Lhote until the death of this one in 1962.

    In 1933 he made three gouaches to illustrate a manuscript calligraphy by Gudio Colucci f the new "A crime" by Ivan Bounine..

    Until 1965, he is professor of painting at the Academy.

    From the 1930s until his death he lived in Paris in the Montparnasse district. His ashes rest in the cemetar...

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