paolo
troubetzkoy
B. 1866, Verbania, Italy
D.1938, Verbania, Italy
The Artist
Biography
Paolo Troubetzkoy
B. 1866, Verbania, Italy D.1938, Verbania, Italy
Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy (also known as Pavel or Paul) was an artist and a sculptor who was described by G.B. Shaw as “the most astonishing sculptor of modern times”.
He was the son of Russian diplomat Prince Peter Troubetzkoy. He worked in Russia, America, England and Italy. He was a self-taught artist, although he learned sculpture from Giuseppe Grandi. He is associated with impressionism, due to his ability to grasp sketchy movements in his bronze works. He was heavily influenced by the work of Auguste Rodin and Medardo Rosso.
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He portrayed the society of the Belle Époque and many famous personalities such as Rodin, Anatole France, Giacomo Puccini and George Bernard Shaw. He was the sculptural equivalent of the portrait painters Giovanni Boldini and John Singer Sargent.
In 1912 and 1916 – 1918 he traveled to the United States and exhibited his work at The Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts and many other museum and galleries.
In 1932, Trubetzkoy returned to his birthplace, where he died in 1938.
Examples of his work are in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and the Russian Museum, St Petersburg and many other leading museums and private collections of Europe and the United States.
Available Artwork
Nikolaevich Tolstoy
bronze
H. 35cm. W. 30cm. D. 30cm.
(H. 13.82in. W. 11.4in. D. 11.4in.)