Boris Dmitrievich GRIGORIEV
Born 1886, Rybinsk - Died 1939, France
Painter and graphic artist.
Paintings
A Lady in Black. 1910s.
Tempera on cardboard.
In the Mountains. 1911.
Tempera on cardboard.
Little Country Women. 1911.
Pencil and whitening on paper, 44x46 cm.
The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Winter. Hunters.
Gouache and Indian ink on cardboard, 24.5x24.4 cm.
The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Back from Work. 1912.
Tempera on cardboard, 52x84,3 cm.
The State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
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Entrez. 1913.
Tempera and gouache on cardboard, 45x65 cm.
The State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
Vultures. 1913.
Tempera on cardboard.
Grandfather's Tomb. 1913.
Oil on canvas.
Dull Season in Paris (a Fashionable Dance). 1913.
Tempera on cardboard, 45.5x63.6 cm.
Private collection, St.Petersburg.
Pierrot's Wedding. 1913.
Gouache on cardboard, 40.8x97 cm.
Private collection, St.Petersburg.
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Parisian Cafe. 1913.
Pastel on cardboard, 63.5x50 cm.
Taganrog Picture Gallery.
Dream. 1913 - 1914.
Oil on canvas.
L'Étranger (Stranger. Self-Portrait). 1916.
Oil on canvas, 95x68 cm.
Private collection, St.Petersburg.
Portrait of the Producer V.E.Meyerhold. 1916.
Oil on canvas, 247x163 cm.
The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Portrait of the Photographer M.A.Sherling. 1916.
Oil on canvas, 99x91 cm.
Private collection, St.Petersburg.
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Woman and Child (Childhood). 1916.
Oil on canvas, 107x107 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Portrait of the Artist Mikhail Dobuzhinsky. 1917.
Oil on canvas, 147.5x88 cm.
Private collection, St.Petersburg.
Sunflowers. 1917 - 1919. (From a series "Rasseya")
Oil on canvas, 62x70,5 cm.
I.Brodsky Museum, St Petersburg.
The Street of Blondes. 1917.
Oil on canvas, 253x143 cm.
I.Brodsky Museum, St Petersburg.
Concierge. 1917.
Oil on canvas.
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Girl with a Pan. 1917.
Oil on canvas. 71 x 62 cm.
The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Portrait of the Artist Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerikh. 1917.
Tempera on cardboard, varnish. 59,5x52,5 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Rasseya. 1917. (From a series "Rasseya")
Oil on canvas.
Old Milk-Woman. 1917. (From a series "Rasseya")
Oil on canvas, 62x70,5 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Circus Woman. 1917.
Tempera on cardboard, 108x67 cm.
Tula Province Art Museum.
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Portrait of E.G.Grigorieva, the Artist's Wife. 1917.
Tempera on cardboard, 98x63 cm.
Lvov Picture Gallery.
Portrait of Shaliapin. 1918.
Oil on canvas, 195x248 cm.
I.Brodsky Museum, St Petersburg.
The People's Land. 1918. (From a series "Rasseya")
Oil on canvas, 90x125 cm.
The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
An Old Man from Olonetz. 1918. (From a series "Rasseya")
Oil on canvas, 71x71 cm.
The Pskov Historic-Art Museum.
Cabaret. 1918.
Mixed media on board, 85x100 cm.
Private collection, St Petersburg.
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Trees. Not later than 1919.
Oil on canvas.
The Wonderful Soup. Early 1920s.
Oil on canvas, 91x89 cm.
Private collection.
Portrait of the Writer Maxim Gorky. 1926.
Oil on canvas, 104x92 cm.
Memorial Museum of M.Gorky, Moscow.
Maternity (Portrait of N.A.Peshkova with daughter). 1926.
Oil on canvas, 77x63.5 cm.
Private collection, St.Petersburg.
Portrait of the Composer Sergei Rakhmaninov. 1930.
Tempera on on cardboard, 50x35 cm.
M.Glinka State Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow.
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Chile. Santiago. 1930.
Tempera and gouache on cardboard, 25.5x36 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
In the Peru Tropics. 1936.
Tempera and gouache on cardboard, 36.7x49.5 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Drawings
Portrait of a Girl (Lidochka Chukovsky, daughter of writer Kornei Chukovsky). 1910s.
Pencil on paper.
Chukovsky family collection, Moscow.
Portrait of Poet Velimir Khlebnikov. 1915.
Pencil on paper. The drawing was published in the album "Chukokkala" by Kornei Chukovsky.
In a Carriage.
Pencil on paper. 33.3 x 27.6 cm.
The Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
Four Female Figures. 1916.
Pencil on paper. 33.9 x 24.4 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
A Girl. 1917.
Pencil on paper. 34.5 x 21.5 cm.
The Russian Museum, St
Petersburg.
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A Village Street. 1917.
Pencil on paper. 33.3 x 27.7 cm.
The Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
Mourning. From the "Intimité" series. 1918.
Lead pencil, varnish on paper, 42x33 cm.
Private collection, St Petersburg.
Marseille. 1918. From the "Boui boui au bord de la mer" series.
Pencil on paper. 24x40 cm.
Private collection, St Petersburg.
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Biography:
Boris Grigoriev has studied at the Stroganov Institute, Moscow (1903-1907) under Shcherbinovsky, and at the Academy of Arts (1907-1912) under Kardovsky and Kiseliov.
From 1909 the young artist participated in exhibitions including Fellowship of Independents and World of Art.
He has lived in Paris in the years 1912-1914.
From 1913 he was a member of the World of Art group.
Grigoriev has produced the series "Soving/Broadcasting" (1917). Worked for the journals "Satiricon" and "Novy Satiricon" (New Satiricon).
He has moved to Paris in 1919, then from 1920 lived and worked in Germany, and from 1922 - in France, from 1923 - in USA. In 1926 the artist settled in Kagne-sur-Mere (South France).
In 1918 and in 1936 he traveled through Latin America (Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, Cuba).