Судейкин, Сергей Юрьевич

Scenographer, graphic artist, painter

Born St. Petersburg, 19 March1882 (1884)

Died Nyack (NY), 12 August 1946 

From 1897 to 1909 Soudeikine attended the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, where he studied under Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov. In 1909 he enrolled at the Petersburg Academy of Arts and was hired by Diaghilev in 1912 as scene painter for his Ballets-Russes. In 1917 he left Moscow for the Crimea and in April 1919 moved to Tiflis where he worked mainly as a muralist and designer. In May 1920 he went to Paris and in 1922 to New York where he worked for Nikita Baliev's Chauve-Souris cabaret.  

1903

1910-11

1915

Cabaret

1921-1927

1922-23

1929

1931

1934

1938