Alexis Paul Arapoff (né Alexei Alexeyevich Arapov; ; 6 December 1904Центральный Государственный Исторический Архив Санкт-Петербурга. Ф. 19 оп.127 д.1676 кадр 203. – 25 September 1948) was a White émigré Russian-born painter, first based in France in 1923, where he belonged to the École de Paris, and later in Boston, Massachusetts, where he relocated in 1930.Massachusetts, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1798-1950
Biography Born into an Orthodox noble family (Arapov) in Saint Peterburg, Russia, Alexis flew to Germany in 1917 to escape the revolution. When he came back to Russia in 1921, he was admitted to the Saratov Art Institute. In 1923, he went to Moscow, where he became a furniture designer in a workers' palace. Following this, he created suits and scenes for the "avant-garde" theater of Russian choreographer Nikolai Foregger. Later he worked for the "False Mirror Theatre" of Nikolai Evreinov, and followed the theater trip to Paris in 1925.Profile of Alexis Arapoff
He remained in Paris where he met Catherine Green, an American studying at the Sorbonne.René Gimpel, "Journal d'un collectionneur", 18 September 1929, p. 572, édition Hermann de 2011 They married and moved to the United States in 1930. Arapoff, a Roman Catholic convert since 1934, painted religious paintings and icons. He became a U.S. citizen in 1937.U.S. Naturalization Records Indexes, 1794-1995
In 1948, Arapoff died at the Henry Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Massachusetts, after a car accident in nearby Ashburnham. He was survived by his wife, their three daughters, Anne, Catherine and Mary, and three sons Peter, John and Paul. He was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Malden.
Exhibitions 1928, Arapoff had exhibitions at Paris's "Salon des Indépendants" and at "Salon des Tuileries" 1935, Solo exhibition at the Grace Horne Gallery (Boston) 1938, at the New England Conservatory of Music and at "The Arts" (Boston) Art Institute of Chicago "Religious Works of Alexis Arapoff" Boston Library (Winter, 2002)
Cross station The Boston Public Library possessed six paintings of a "Cross station". These paintings were considered lost in the 1980s.
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