On 4 November 1955 Lucien Clergue visited Picasso in Cannes, France. He also worked on a series whose subject was carrion. During this period, he worked on a series of photographs of travelling entertainers, acrobats and harlequins, the Saltimbanques. Within a year and a half, young Clergue worked on his photography with the goal of sending more images to Picasso. Four years later, at a corrida in Arles, he showed his photographs to Spanish painter Pablo Picasso who, though subdued, asked to see more of his work. In 1949, he learned the basics of photography. Clergue was from a family of shopkeepers and could not afford to pursue further studies in a college or university school of music, such as a conservatory. At the age of 7 he began learning to play the violin, and after several years of study his teacher admitted that he had nothing more to teach him. Lucien Clergue was born in Arles, France. He was Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris for 2013. Lucien Clergue (French: 1934 – 2014) was a French photographer. Mounted in a silver painted wooden frame with mat behind acrylic screen. Hand signed by the artist with hand written description. Jacqueline et Pablo Picasso écoutant Manitas de Plata, circa 1968. ![]() ![]() Gelatin silver photographic print depicting Pablo Picasso titled "Mougins". : Publishing Center "Moskvovedenie", 2007 His vintage archive is represented by Anya Tish Gallery and has been sold at auction by Swann Gallery, Hermitage Fine Art and others. Buried in Moscow at the Piskariovskoye cemetery. He died on Decemin New York where he lived in his last years. ![]() Born on Novemin Kremenchug (now Poltava region, Ukraine) in the family of Mikhoel-Leib Gurari (1881-1925). Samariy Mikhailovich (Mikhoel-Leibovich) Gurari ( 1916 -1998) - Soviet photographer, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR. In English the spelling of his name is also found as Samari Gurary and Samary Gurari, Shmuel Mikhailovitch Gur-Arye, Samariy Mikhailovich Gurari, Samarii Gurarii. Even on his trips to the construction site of the White sea channel (Belomorkanal), that, as we all know, was built by prisoners, Rodchenko managed to get happy faces. The most famous photographer of the pre-war time, “Stalin’s falcon” Alexander Rodchenko, was only photographing “the positive side of reality:” parades and marches, famous people, symbols of time and of the epoch. Photography assignments were only given to the most trustworthy party members. Excerpted from “Samariy Gurariy: An Introduction to the Life and Works” by George Alexander Today in Russia, he is regarded by photographic historians as the equal of Russian and Ukrainian greats Dmitri Baltermants, Yevgeny Khaldei, Max Alpert and Arkady Shaikhet. photographed Molotov at the opening ceremonies of the United Nations, Khruschev’s historic Moscow meeting with Fidel Castro, Jimmy Carter’s meeting with Leonid Brezhnev and many of the early cosmonauts, including Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.” The photographer decided to immigrate to the United States after the collapse of the USSR, smuggling a series of photograph prints through Israel along the way before arriving in America in 1995. According to writer George Alexander, Gurariy also “. He became the favorite photo correspondent of Stalin and was present and working at many of the most historic events of Stalin's career, such as the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences as well as covering the Soviet-Nazi front during the Second World War. ![]() He also did work for Pravda, Tass and Gaz. He began his career in 1934, photographing for the illustration department of the Moscow newspaper Izvestia. He was born to a Jewish family in Kremenchug Poltavs'ka moving to Moscow in 1921. Samariy Gurariy (1916 - 1998) was a Soviet Union photojournalist and photographer. Provenance: acquired from the estate of photographer Samariy Gurariy. Gelatin silver print, matte finish, date of printing unknown. Yuri Gagarin Meeting Workers at Foundry Stankolit, depicting the famous Russian cosmonaut (Moscow, 1961)
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