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