Serge Chubine

Biography Zalshupin was born in Saint Petersburg as a son of Alexander Semenovich Zalshupin (born 1867- died 1929), publisher of the Энциклопедия банковского дела (Encyclopedia of Banking) and the periodicals Русский экономист (Russian Economist) and Жизнь и суд (Life and Law Court). From 1915 up to 1918 he studied art at the Новая художественная мастерская (New Art Studio) under the painters Vasily Ivanovich Shukhaev (Василий Иванович Шухаев) and Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff (Александр Евгеньевич Яковлев). released an album of the artist's etchings, Portraits of Modern Russian Writers, in an edition of 100 copies, which included portraits of Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Maxim Gorky, Boris Pilnyak, Ivan Shmelev, and others. That same year, he illustrated the book Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, translated by Vladimir Nabokov.

Paintings His paintings include:

Le joueur de violoncelle, 1923 Still life with pipe, 1923. Oil on canvas, 59 x 48,5 cm Mère et ses enfants, 1927 Portrait de jeune femme, 1928 Le port d'Alger, 1929 Le cabaret, 1929 Cabaret parisien, 1929 Place animée, 1930 Femme aux bras croisés, 1930 Portrait garçon, aquarelle and gouache, 36x26 cm, 1930 Femme à la couture, 1931 Portrait de la femme à la cigarette, 1931 Sur la terrasse d'un café des boulevards Les écuyers Les écoliers parisiens Portrait du père de l'artiste Paysage Urbaine Portrait de son père

Book illustrations

73 pages. 129 pages.

114 pages. V. Sirin is a pseudonym for V.V. Nabokov.

Literature Pages 204-205. 424 pages. 2003 edition: 387 pages.