The famous cartoonist Pavel Petrovich Ivanov worked under the pseudonym Paul Mack. Graphic designer, set designer, painter. He received his art education in the 1910s at the private School-Studio of K. F. Yuon in Moscow. In 1912–1913 he collaborated in the Moscow satirical magazine “Theater in Caricatures” and the St. Petersburg “Satyricon”, where he met N.V. Remizov (Re-mi) and V.V. Lebedev. He worked in St. Petersburg and Moscow as a portrait painter and fashion designer. He directed a dance studio in Moscow, specializing in tango. In 1914 he entered the Kiev Military School. Member of the First World War; served in the Death's Head hussar regiment, was wounded, and had military awards. In 1918 he was demobilized with the rank of captain. In 1918, he was arrested for refusing to take off the Tsar’s uniform and spent six months in Butyrka prison in Moscow. In 1920–1921 he worked at the Theater of Revolutionary Satire in Moscow. In 1922, through Turkestan and Afghanistan, he left for Persia (Iran). He worked as a racehorse trainer for several years. In the 1920s and early 1930s he lived in Tehran and mastered the technique of Persian miniature painting. In the late 1920s he was introduced to Reza Shah and received the title of his court artist; executed the coronation portrait of the Shah on the “Peacock Throne”. He worked in the field of book graphics, created illustrations for the books “Scheherazade”, “Tamerlane”, “Genghis Khan”, “A Thousand and One Nights”, and made drawings depicting the life of the Mongols, Turkmens and Persians. In recent years, he painted allegorical paintings on modern themes, turning to images of Russian mythology (“Sirin”, “Alkonost”, “Gamayun”, “St. George the Victorious”). In 1929 he made a trip to Paris and London, where he exhibited his works at the Paris Salon, the Royal Academy and the Leicester Gallery in London. In the mid-1930s, after a short stay in Athens and Cairo, he moved to Belgium and lived in Brussels. After the Second World War, he took an active part in exhibitions in Belgium: almost every year he held personal exhibitions in Brussels and the surrounding area. He was awarded a gold medal at the World Exhibition in Brussels in 1958, where his works were exhibited in the Iranian pavilion. In Mak's work, the features of Art Nouveau art of the early twentieth century and the tradition of Persian miniatures are closely intertwined. The formation of his individual style was significantly influenced by the work of O. Beardsley, the masters of the World of Art, especially A. Ya. Golovin, I. Ya. Bilibin and V. M. Vasnetsov. The artist’s works are distinguished by their extraordinary decorativeness, colorfulness, and sophistication of graphic design. Mak can be considered one of the newly discovered names of Russian art; his works are little known in Russia, and the study of his creative heritage has yet to be carried out. Some of the artist's works are in the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin, St. Petersburg Museum of Theater and Musical Art (former collection of N. D. and N. Lobanov-Rostovsky).
Mak Paul Year – 1959 Size – 33.3x24.2. Technique – Paper, see technology.
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Mak Paul Year – 1925. Size – 29,8х21,6. Technique – Pencil, watercolor, gouache on paper.
Description:Signed and dated top left.
Аукцион №191 Аукцион 191 20 марта 2025 г.
Mak Paul Year – 1946 Size – 80x70.2. Technique – Oil on canvas.
Description:Signed and dated lower left.
Аукцион № 148 "Русское искусство ХХ века" 08 февраля 2018 г.
Description:Signed lower left.
Аукцион № 121 "Русское и западноевропейское искусство XVII-XX веков". 21 апреля 2011 г.
Mak Paul Year – 1925 Size – 29.8x21.6. Technique – Paper, pencil, watercolor, gouache.
Аукцион № 142 "Русское и Западноевропейское искусство XIX-ХХ веков". 23 октября 2014 г.
Mak Paul Size – 70.3x50.7. Technique – Oil on canvas.
Аукцион № 62 "Весенний салон" 19 апреля 2008 г.
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