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Antonin
Nikolayevich Sungurov

Russia • born in 1894

He was born in 1894. in Russia. With 1926. he lived in China. Worked in the village near Harbin, traveled the country. In 1927 29гг. was the Illustrator of the Russian magazine "Youth". Painted pictures on the history, Ethnography, and contemporary urban life of the Chinese. In the fall of 1933. work exhibited at the 1st art-ethnographic exhibition from the collection of CER in Harbin. In the mid 30-ies, lives and works in Paris, where he became a renowned portrait painter and artist with extraordinary expression of reality. Mainly portraits dedicated to attractive young people as "Young fisherman of Cannes", "harlequin" "Nostalgia" among the artists distinguished by the fact that his work is in many cases devoted to gays. their life and culture. His circle of friends included writers and artists like Jean Cocteau, Christian Berard, and Roger, Parafit.

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