Pavel
Petrovich Ivanov (Mac Paul)

Studied in the Studio of K. Yuon in Moscow . And soon became a famous cartoonist, under the pseudonym Paul Mac, not once in their time the black and white "pictures" potecasi funny in the characters and Nicholas Roerich, and Vaslav Nijinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff and Michel Fokine, who well knew and loved. And their work published in major journals of Moscow "Theater in cartoons", "Ramp and life", "Satyricon"... Many of them are now unlikely to find. Everything is so accustomed to his signature on the works of M. A. K. that familiar, already is a familiar name, Paul told him: "Hey, Mac!", "How you doing, Mac?". In the monograph Sidorova about it just a few words: "talented but difficult artist". "Soreness" Mac was in his drawings, technically perfectly executed, full of eroticism, chimeras, and strange fantasies. All in the spirit of symbolism. The drawings look like Beardsley, and at the same time very different. Mac was fond of then only logged-in tango fashion. His partner was the famous dancer, singer tango Elsa Kruger. And suddenly Pavel left Moscow and went to Kiev in military school, after which, already an officer, went to the front. At the end of the war he was captain of the ' 89 Belomorsky Infantry Regiment. There, during one of the battles, the now famous "Brusilov breakthrough", Maku tore off part of his legs. The nurses, fortunately, finding wounded killed, still put it near the hospital tents, and then to bury. There and found it obscure to us now a doctor make an amazing operation. Without any medication he so expertly "sewed" Mack the leg that a few months later he was able to walk although with great difficulty — leg was shorter than... six centimeters. That, however, did not prevent the artist to soon rank rider class 4...

After returning from the front, Pavel Ivanovich got into a new scrape. In 1918, the Poppy almost got shot by the Bolsheviks for the emergence on the streets of Moscow with the Tsar's orders received for bravery in the Russo-German front. Saved him... the ability to draw. The guards, leading him to be shot, and sat Mac in Butyrka, argued: if we draw someone from the us release. Drew. Released. In 1920-1921, he worked as a stage designer at the Theatre of Revolutionary Satire in Moscow. He emigrated in 1922, the poppy for more than 20 years was court painter to the Shah of Iran. In 1913, Mack painted the famous Natalia Goncharova. Self portrait — eagle, at the art Museum of the Russian city. In the mid-1930s the artist began to live in Belgium. After the Second World war, he regularly participated in exhibitions in Brussels and other Belgian cities, and in 1958 received the Gold Medal of the Brussels World society for his work displayed in the Iranian Pavilion. Ivanov died in Brussels in 1967.