7 Sep 1907 - 10 Jan 1995 (aged 87) Alexander Borisovich Serebriakoff was a painter, watercolorist and Russian decorator, born in 1907 in Neskuchnoye, near Kharkov (now Ukraine), died in Paris in 1994. Exiled in France after the Russian Revolution, he practiced the rare specialty of interior portrait, leaving a meticulous testimony of the decorations and celebrations of French high society. He often signed his works with his sister, Catherine Serebriakoff. Alexandre Serebriakoff was born into a family of artists. His mother, Zinaïda Serebriakova, is the first Russian woman to be recognized as an important painter. It is related to Benois, famous dynasty of Russian artists emigrated from France in the 18th century. The great-grandfather of Alexander is the architect Nicolas Benois, his great-uncle is the painter, decorator and scenographer Alexandre Benois, founder of Mir Iskousstva and friend of Serge Diaghilev. His grandfather Eugene is a sculptor. One of his uncles, Eugène Lanceray, is a sculptor, painter and graphic designer, the other is Nicolas Lanceray, a renowned architect. Alexander Serebriakoff was seven years old when the October Revolution broke out. All family property was confiscated, including the property of Neskoutchnoye (in French, "Sans Souci") where he was born. His father, Boris, was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks: he died in 1919 of typhus contracted during his incarceration. His mother took her children to Petrograd to try to survive, but in the face of difficulties, resolved to emigrate alone to Paris in 1924. Alexander and his sister Catherine joined her soon after. This is where Alexandre started a career as interior designer. He stayed in Camaret-sur-Mer and Concarneau, with his family, for several summers the following years. Alexandre Serebriakoff is buried with his mother, Zinaïda Serebriakova, at the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois [Google translation of https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Serebriakoff] undefined

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