Продам: F.S.Rozhankovsky, "Paris"

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Rozhankovky Fyodor Mikhailovich , "Paris" , watercolor on paper , 30x40 .
The work was written in Paris, where he emigrated in 1925.
This work , he sent for his sister , who lived in Tallinn. What does the inscription in the lower right corner.

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Rozhankovsky Fedor Stepanovich was born in 1891 in Mitau , provincial town Courland Russian Empire (now g.Elgava in Latvia). Rozhankovsky family moved often , childhood future artist held in Revel (now of Tallinn in Estonia ) and St. Petersburg . After graduating from high school in Revel , Rozhankovsky went to Moscow , where he became a student of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In his student years Rozhankovsky fond scenography , collaborated with the Moscow Art Theater . Complete their education prevented World War . In 1914 Rozhankovsky was drafted into the army and served until the end of the war as an officer in the motorized parts. During the war, the young artist made war sketches for various newspapers and magazines. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the collapse of the tsarist army Rozhankovsky appeared in Ukraine, Poltava , where he worked as an illustrator in periodicals. In 1919 he was drafted into the White Army . After the defeat of the Whites in 1920 Rozhankovsky appeared in Lviv , which became part of independent Poland . From there he went to Poznan, where he worked as a theater artist in Poznan Opera. In addition, he created a series Rozhankovsky Polish historical townscapes and illustrated several children's books. In 1925 Fedor Rozhankovsky moved to France . The artist settled in Paris, on the left bank of the Seine. He quickly entered the circle of artists of the Russian emigration, made ​​many friends among the French artists. At first Rozhankovsky mainly collaborated with Russian publishers, magazines and newspapers , which in those years was set in Paris . The most famous illustration of the artist purchased the book Sasha Cherny "Diary Fox Mickey " (1927 ) and the collection of satirical stories Don Aminado " Throwing Cloak " (1928 ) . Soon talented Russian illustrator noticed and French publishers . After the incredible success released in 1931 in Paris publishing house «Domino Press» children's book " Daniel Boone " with drawings Rozhankovsky came to him real fame . Since the early 1930s, the artist has illustrated dozens of children's books for «Flammarion», «Fernand Nathan» and other publishers . Furthermore, Rozhankovsky published his drawings in «Le Rire» and other major journals. Often he worked under the pseudonym of birth. Special kids enjoyed success with his albums , published in the series " Daddy Castor ." In the interwar decades Fedor Rozhankovsky collaborated with many publishers bibliophile , which produced small editions illustrated books for collectors. Especially popular among bibliophiles steel virtuoso erotic illustrations Rozhankovsky . The most famous books with frivolous artist's drawings - "Textbook of courtesy for girls used in a private school ," Pierre Louis (Paris: Simon Kra, 1926), Henri Monnier playbook , Jean du Bois and Lemercier de Neuville " Erotic Theatre » (Paris, 1932), "Free verse " Raymond Radiguet (Champigny: Au Panier Fleuri, 1935) , "Letter prezidentshe " Theophile Gautier (Paris: Rene Bonnel, 1935) , a suite of 30 lithographs " Spring idyll » (Paris: Henri Pasquinelli, 1936) " Erotic poems " by Pierre Louis (Rome, 1937) and " Gallant song " Beranger (Paris: Éditions de la Belle Étoile, 1937). After the occupation of Paris by German troops in 1940, fifty years the artist went to the south of France , in the free zone, and in September 1941 he emigrated to America. In New York, he signed a contract for ten years with the publishing house «Golden Books», specialized in the production of children's picture books , and settled in Manhattan , who left only after the war , he moved to suburban Bronxville . In 1946 Fedor married Nina Rozhankovsky Fedotovoj , daughter of the famous Russian philosopher George Petrovich Fedotov. After 1951 the artist illustrated children's books for various American publishers. Creativity Rozhankovsky was noted in 1956, the highest award for American illustrators of children's books - by Randolph Caldecott Medal . Total artist has illustrated more than 130 books for children.
In 1960 the family returned to Rozhankovsky Paris, where the artist continued to work on the orders of U.S. publishers engaged scenography ballets in small theaters , created expressive murals in Paris orphanage. In 1965 the family returned to the United States, and in 1968 Fedor Rozhankovsky became an American citizen . The artist died in 1970 at his home in Bronxville , after a long illness.