Pavel
Lvovich Bunin

Russia • 1927−2008

Biography and information

Russian Illustrator, diarist, poet-translator. Member of the Union of artists of Russia.

Great-nephew and pupil of the famous surgeon of Spasokukotskogo prototype of the protagonist of the novel by L. Ulitskaya "the Incident kukotsky".

He studied at the Art Institute named after Surikov, where he was expelled during the struggle with cosmopolitanism.

In 1978 he emigrated, he lived in Austria, Greece, Italy, Germany, France, England, and Israel. In 1987, during the perestroika, he returned to Moscow.

By his own admission artist, a determining factor in the formation of his personality were books. Illustration Bunin "magnetic" is always a co – creation with the writer, the penetration into the depths of its plans. Some texts (poems English poets, from sir Walter Raleigh to Rudyard Kipling) Bunin himself translated into Russian language. Wrote memories of K. I. Chukovsky, who was on friendly terms even a teenager.

Held 60 solo exhibitions of the artist – in Moscow, Vienna, Paris, Pyatigorsk, Basel, Cambridge, on Sakhalin.

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