Artist profile

Antoine Pevsner

Biography

1884

Born in Russia

1908–1910

Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kiev

1911

Starts studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg

1911

First visit to Paris where he meets Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger

1913

Second visit to Paris where he meets Amedeo Modigliani and Alexander Archipenko

1915–1917

Lives in Oslo, Norway together with his brother Naum Gabo

1917

Starts teaching at the Academy of Fine Art, Moscow together with Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich

1920

Publication of the Realist Manifesto with Naum Gabo

1922

Part of the 'First Russian Exhibition' in Soviet Berlin with Naum Gabo

1923

First visit in Berlin where he meets Marcel Duchamp and Katherine Dreier

1924

Moves to Paris

1930

Obtains French citizenship

1930s

Starts to exhibit internationally

1931

Founding of Constructivist group Abstraction-Création

1946

Founding of Réalités Nouvelles group

1947

First solo exhibition at Galerie René Drouin

1948

Exhibition 'Gabo-Pevsner' at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

1952

Exhibits in Chefs-d’oeuvre du XXe siècle at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris

1957

Solo exhibition at Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris

1958

Represented in the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

1962

Dies in Paris on April 12