Property of the late Marcello Violante Boris Dmitrievich Gr...

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Property of the late Marcello Violante

Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev (1886 - 1939)
Portrait of a dancer

Pencil on paper

Dimensions:
(Paper) 16.5 in. (H) x 5.75 in. (W)
(Frame) 25 in. (H) x 13.25 in. (W)

Boris Grigoriev (Russian: 11 July 1886 – 7 February 1939) was a painter, graphic artist, and writer. 

Grigoriev was born in Rybinsk and studied at the Stroganov Art School from 1903 to 1907 with Dmitry Shcherbinovsky. Grigoriev went on to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg under Alexander Kiselyov, Dmitry Kardovsky and Abram Arkhipov from 1907 to 1912. He began exhibiting his work in 1909 as a member of the Union of Impressionists group, and became a member of the World of Art movement in 1913. At that time he also wrote a novel, Young Rays.

After his return to Saint Petersburg in 1913 he became part of the Bohemian scene in St. Petersburg and was close to many artists and writers of the time, such as Sergey Sudeykin, Velimir Khlebnikov and the poet Anna Akhmatova, often painting their portraits.