Tempera on board by Serge Ferat(French 20th) 9" x 7" in a frame 15.5" x 13". ///Los Angeles based Goldfield Gallery label on reverse.///////////(From Wiki-translated from the French):" Serge Férat is the pseudonym of Count Sergey Nikolayevich Yastrebzov born in Moscow on May 28 , 1881 and died in Paris on October 13 , 1958 . He was a painter and decorator. He also used as another pseudonym that of Roudniev. He emigrated to France.////////////////////////////He arrived in Western Europe in 1899, and settled in Paris in 1900 in the large duplex of his first cousin, Baroness Hélène Oettingen , daughter of her maternal aunt born Beinarovitch.He attended Bouguereaus classes at the Julian Academy.Under the pseudonym Roudniev , he exhibited the following year at the Salon of French artists several paintings influenced by Maurice Denis . He is interested in Italian Quattrocento and, influenced by Cubism, meets Picasso and Apollinaire who will give him the pseudonym Férat. Aristocrat easy and cultivated, he acquires from Douanier Rousseau (which he will become the expert at his death) a dozen of his paintings.In 1911, he bought with his friend Apollinaire and his cousin Baroness Hélène Oettingen the avant-garde revue Les Soirées de Paris directed by the poet. He takes the artistic direction under the pseudonym of Jean Cérusse (of these Russians ). In the spring of 1913 , he began a relationship that would last until 1920 with Irene Lagut . The magazine is interrupted by the Great War . Enlisted as a volunteer nurse in the Russian Ambulances [ 3 ] , then at the Italian Military Hospital opened on December 1 , 1915 , 41, Quai d'Orsay where he runs the establishment under the responsibility of Dr. Ballodonmi but in fact almost alone, Serge Férat hospitalized there Apollinaire , wounded in the head in 1916 . Next to only eleven other patients, the poet resumes his literary activities thanks to the complicity of his friend [ 5 ] .In 1917, Serge Férat illustrated and realized the sets and costumes of Apollinaire's play Les Mamelles de Tirésias , created in a staging by Pierre Albert-Birot at the Maubel Conservatory in Paris. [ 6 ]Ruined by the Russian Revolution, he nevertheless manages to continue painting. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants , the Salon d'Automne and the Salon de la Section d'Or .In the 1930s, his Cubist style gradually became decorative. He also made tapestry boxes for the Beauvais factory.He participated in the Exhibition of Russian Art in Prague in 1935. His work is noticed at the big Cubist exhibition in 1953 at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris.WorksThis section is empty, insufficiently detailed or incomplete. Your help is welcome! How to do ?Still Life , 1914 , National Museum of Modern Art , Paris .BibliographyJeanine Warnod , Serge Férat. A Russian cubist in Paris, Paris, Conti, 2010, 168 p. ( ISBN 978-2-35103-021-9 )Ardengo Soffici , Serge Férat, Hélène d'Œttingen , Correspondence 1903-1964 , ed. established by Barbara Meazzi , Lausanne, The Age of Man, 2013.Hélène d'Œttingen , aka Roch Gray , Diary of a foreigner , introduction and ed. prepared by Barbara Meazzi, followed by Serge Férat, Letters to Hélène d'Oettingen , translated from Russian, presented and annotated by Régis Gayraud , Paris, Minotaur, 2016, 111 p. ( ISBN 978-2-916775-33-3 )Personal exhibitionsParis in 1935, Bonjean Gallery,Paris in 1938, Gallery of Beaune,Paris in 2010, Galerie Bérès."

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