GEORGY ARTEMOFF (1892-1965)

Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, stage designer.

From the family of a military doctor, an ataman of the village of Uryupinskaya. He studied at the Emperor Alexander III Cadet Corps in Novocherkassk (1899-1905), in the Drawing Classes in Rostov-on-Don (1907-1908) with A.S. Chinonov.

In 1910, came to Moscow, became close with the artist S.N. Pimenov. Attended classes at the studio of K. Korovin at the MUZhVZ (1910-1913).

In 1913 he arrived in Paris, where he became acquainted with O. Zadkin, A. Modigliani, H. Sutin and other representatives of the artistic environment.

Member of the Union of Russian Artists in France and the Association of Artists-Animalists. Since 1927 he exhibited at the Salon of painters and decorators (member of the Salon since 1928). In 1930 he had a joint exhibition with his wife in the gallery R.Zivy. He participated in an exhibition of Russian art at La Renaissance.

He was awarded the Silver Medal of the French Society of Artists (1927), the Gold Medal of the Salon des Arts Décoratifs (1928) and the Universal Exhibition in Paris (1937). He had a solo exhibition at the Chappe Lautier Gallery in Toulouse.

Between 1946 and 1958, he had about twenty solo exhibitions in Nice, Carcassonne, Cannes, Montpellier, Toulouse and Paris. Posthumous and retrospective exhibitions were held in Carcassonne (1968), Toulouse (1975, 1992), in the artist's studio in Revel (1980), Castres (1990) and Bonifacio (1992).

Works are in many museum collections, including the National Museum of Modern Art and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Individual works are kept in the Rostov Museum of Fine Arts.