Vladimir Polunin (1880 – 11 March 1957) was a scene painter. Born in the

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, in 1908 Polunin moved to

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to work as a designer for the '' Ballets russes''. He was

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's chief scene-painter and worked with Picasso. Among Polunin's students was Karen Harris, daughter of the banker Sir Austin Harris. In London, he met one of the artists Sergei Diaghilev was trying hard to get work for, the sculptor and

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Elizabeth Violet Hart. She was an English introduced in the Parisian Bohemia by

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and heroine of the novel '. They were married the same year. At that time he was a teacher at the

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. He was the father of botanists Nicholas Polunin and

Oleg Polunin Oleg Vladimirovitch Polunin (November 1914 – July 1985) was an English botanist, teacher and traveller. He was one of three sons to the artists Vladimir (born in the Russian Empire) and Elizabeth Polunin. All three sons were interested in the ...

, as well as physician Ivan Polunin. Polunin died on 11 March 1957 in the UK.

Publication

* ''The Continental Method of Scene Painting: Seven Years With the Diaghileff Company''.''The Continental Method of Scene Painting: Seven Years With the Diaghileff Company''
on WorldCat

References

External links

Vladimir Polunin
on the website of the

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