Смирнов, Борис

Painter

Born Kharkov, 1894

Died Cagnes-sur-Mer, 9 December 1976

Smirnov served as a cadet in the tsras army and fled Russia in 1917, eventually arriving in Japan. Around 1920 he arrived in Paris and befriended Foujita. Following his friends advice, Smirnov sttled in 1926 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, where he mainly worked as a portraitist.

1925

1925?