pingping i love you

Artist Dmitry Bushen (Dmitry Bouchene)

Painter, graphic artist, set designer - Dmitry Bushen (Dmitry Bouchene) was born April 26, 1893 in Saint-Tropez, France, the famous aristocratic family. A descendant of the Huguenots who settled in Russia during the reign of Catherine II. Director of the Corps of Pages grandson Dmitry Christianovich Bushena, son of Major-General D. Bushena. After the early death of his mother in 1895, was taken to St. - Petersburg and was brought up in a family of aunts - Catherine Kuzmina-Karavaeva in the future nun Mary, which left vast memories of the Silver Age.

Buket in a white vase
In 1912 he graduated from the 2nd St. - Petersburg High School and went to Paris, where he attended the Académie Ranson and met with Maurice Denis and Henri Matisse. In 1913 he entered the historical-philological faculty of St. - Petersburg University. During his studies met the future art historian Sergei Ernst, who until the end of days was his closest friend. Along with his studies at the university engaged in the Drawing School OPH (Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Arts), which drew the attention of the headmaster of Nicholas Roerich.

Among the admirers of eighteen artists was Anna Akhmatova. They are connected by a warm friendship that has stood the test of time and distance. Deep sympathy linked him with Zinaida Serebryakova. Communicating with the artist, she drew inspiration from the most difficult for her family's post-revolutionary period. Her famous portrait of a young Bushen 1922 full of positive charisma, light and motive power.


 
In the estate Gumilyovs Slepnevo 1912. In the center - Anna Akhmatova, her left Maria Kuzmina-Karavaeva right - Elizabeth Y. Kuzmin-Karavayeva and artist Dmitry Bushen.

Portrait of Dmitry Bushen. Artist Zinaida Serebryakova

Since 1917 Dmitry participated in Petrograd exhibitions: "World of Art", "Russian Landscape", 1st State Free Exhibition of Works of Art, the exhibition of Russian art in America. Exhibited still lifes, sketches of scenery and compositions inspired by the theater. Performed bookplates, designed books for the publishing house "Aquilon". In 1918 - 1925 he worked as a junior curator of the Hermitage on the separation of porcelain and jewelry.

Bolshoy bouquet of flowers on a blue background

Buket with irises

Buket irises and gladioli

Buket lilac


In the spring of 1925 under the pretext of illness went abroad and settled in Paris, together with Sergei Ernst. Known primarily as a theater artist, Dmitry Bushen entirely belonged to the generation of creative people who personified the golden age of Russian scenery on the stage of Paris. His works have become popular in the West, but are unknown in Russia. His career abroad, the artist began to develop the structure of fabrics and garments for major French fashion houses Jean Patou, Nina Ricci, Jeanne Lanvin and Lucien Lelong. Soon Bushen acquainted with the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, and at the end of the 1920s, begins to create the costumes for her.

Valentine

Vase of flowers in the studio of the artist

Still life with flowers and lemon

Flowers

In addition to the works for the theater, the artist painted a pastel and gouache small-format paintings: flowers, still lifes, landscapes of France, Italian cities, especially Venice, scenes from the life of the theater and the circus. Participated in exhibitions of Russian art in Paris galleries. Donated their work for the benefit of charitable lotteries Russian student youth and needy members of society "World of Art".

Music Pavilion. Villa Versailles

Bouquet of flowers in a blue vase

During his career, Dmitry Bushen created many theatrical sketches for the major European opera houses: for Grand Opera, Theatre des Champs Elysees, Russian Ballet, the Berlin Opera, La Scala, and so on.. In all his decorations Bushen continued the tradition of "World of Art". Collaborated with choreographers George Balanchine, Mikhail Fokin, Leonid Massine, Roland Petit, Serge Lifar.

Costume design for the ballet Copello

Dance

Dance fabulous birds

Fantastic dance

Stsenografiya for "Cyrano de Bergerac"

Eskiz to set "Pelleas et Melisande"

Stsenografiya for Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake". The wedding of Aurora

 

 His works are kept in the National Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of the Opera in Paris, Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York. More than 50 works of Bushen presented to the State Hermitage. Dmitry is buried February 6, 1993 in the cemetery of Montparnasse in Paris in the same grave with Sergei Ernst.

Tsirk

Okolitsy Saint - Tropez

Ozero Albano. Italy

Albano. Italy

Venetsiya

Vid from the terrace

Frukty and leaves

Natyurmort in Senn - Tropez

Natyurmort fruit

Still Life with Fruit

Still life with vase and red tulips

Landscape in Veneto

View from the window in Naples

Buket colors

Buket flowers on a blue background