Boris Grigoriev: 110 Masterpieces

Boris Grigoriev (1886 - 1939) was a famous Russian painter, graphic artist and writer. In the 1910's he was considered to be one of the most highly-paid and impressive Russian portrait-painters. Later in the 1920's while working in America he handled to keep this position. The artist painted many of [...]
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Boris Grigoriev (1886 - 1939) was a famous Russian painter, graphic artist and writer. In the 1910's he was considered to be one of the most highly-paid and impressive Russian portrait-painters. Later in the 1920's while working in America he handled to keep this position. The artist painted many of portraits of almost all representatives of Russian intellectuals of those days, namely Chaliapin F.I., Dobuzhinskiy M.V., Roerich N.K., Klyuev N.A., Gorky M.M., Shestov L.I., Rozanov V.V., Brick L. and Kerensky A.F. Grigoriev also created the genre scenes of Paris, New York and Santiago, landscapes of Europe, North and South America. Grigoriev created illustrations for books of A.S. Pushkin, F.M. Dostoyevsky, M.E. Saltykov-Shedrin, I.S. Turgenev, M. Gorky, V. Kamnsky and S. Cherniy. His work was exhibited widely in Rome, London, Milan, Paris, Boston and New York. Boris Grigoriev was also known as an author and wrote several books under the pen-name of Boris Grie.