Russia Leon Gaspard

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LEON GASPAR (Leon Shulman Gaspard 1882 - 1964).
Born in Vitebsk - died in Taos, artistic commune in New Mexico. Father, a retired officer, from early childhood had taught the boy to long trips on the roads of Asia, Siberia, places of trade in furs and carpets. He plunged into the life of local people and decided to become an artist, to capture the whole is a unique and colorful world.
He studied first in Vitebsk, together with Chagall, later in Odessa and Moscow. In 1901 he traveled to Paris in the Julian Academy, where he studied at the recognition of masters William Adolphe Bouguer and Edouard Toudouze. Leon was fascinated by French impressionism, abstract, innovative paintings of Modigliani and Matisse, in particular the expressive style of sculptures by Rodin. It was an exciting time, because Paris was then the center of the creative potential of the western world in art and music and literature. For several years, he exhibited at the annual exhibition of the Salon. In 1909 he married an American. Gave a 2-year honeymoon on horseback across Siberia. Then he returned to Paris, where "Russia's reworking sketches in painting. In 1914, enlisted in the French Aviation Corps, was seriously injured in a plane crash. Recovering went to America with his wife.
But the trip was drawn. In 1921, three years, traveled to Asia: riding on the Mongolian steppes, in Siberia. He visited Central Asia, Tibet - journeys ended in Beijing. And in 1959, five years before his death, went to the Soviet Union.