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POZHEDAEV, Georgii Anatol'evich (1897-1971). Thre

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1937. Charcoal, watercolor and gold pigment on paper (450 x 595 mm). Signed "Georges A. de Pogedaieff" and dated 1937 lower left. Framed. Pozhedaev entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1915 after serving in the Imperial Army. In 1916, he entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Art, leaving the following year to work as a designer for Théatre Intime. In 1920, he émigrated to Romania and shortly thereafter, to Prague, where he created sets for Anna Pavlova's ballet company. Pozhedaev moved to Paris in 1925 to work in Nikita Baleiff's Théatre de la Chauve-souris. In 1937 he abandoned stage design and moved on to painting scenes of Paris and Provence, colorful still lives and graphic portraits as well as acquiring a reputation as a great master of book illustrations. Over the years he worked on an extensive list of the Russian classics including works by Gogol, Pushkin, Lermontov, Dostoevsky and many others. He is generally considered among the finest of the considerable group of Russian émigré artists working in cabaret and theatrical design in Western Europe in the 1920s.

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