Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov
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Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov 🇷🇺

Валентин Александрович Серов (Known as "Serov")
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Born Jan 19, 1865 🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Passed Away Dec 05, 1911 Moscow, Russian Empire
Lifespan 46 years old
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"I want to paint only that which is joyful and light, though life is hard and dark."

Archival Overview

Premier Russian portraitist and painter whose luminous 'Girl with Peaches' (1887) heralded Russian Impressionism and whose aristocratic portraits captured the twilight of the Romanov Empire.

Biographical Record

Valentin Serov (1865–1911 CE) was the son of composer Alexander Serov, studying under Ilya Repin in Abramtsevo and at the Imperial Academy of Arts.

His masterwork Girl with Peaches brought sparkling plein-air sunlight and psychological freshness to Russian art; he later captured Tsar Nicholas II, Ida Rubinstein, and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

Key Life Milestones

1887

Girl with Peaches (Devochka s persikami)

Painted 12-year-old Vera Mamontova at Abramtsevo, praised as the freshest masterpiece in Russian painting.

1910

Portrait of Ida Rubinstein

Painted the celebrated dancer in Paris in bold, flattened Art Nouveau lines, scandalizing conservative Saint Petersburg academics.

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Final Resting Place

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Novodevichy Cemetery
Moscow, Russia
GPS: 55.7250, 37.5556
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