Jean Simmons as Ophelia /Time Magazine June 28, 1948
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Boris Fyodorovic Chaliapin was born on October 5, 1904 in Moscow, Russia, where he spent most of his childhood and youth. His Italian-born mother, Iole Tornaghi, had been a ballerina before her marriage, and his father, Fyodor Chaliapin, was a widely celebrated opera singer. Among the older Chaliapin's most famous roles was Boris Gudonov, for whom his son was named. Chaliapin exhibited a talent for drawing at an early age, and sketching was one of the major preoccupations of his boyhood.
Education
Despite his family's ample means, the peasant origins of his father prevented Chaliapin from enrolling in Russia's elite lyceums, which were reserved for the aristocracy. As a result, he received his basic education at one of Moscow's less exclusive gymnasiums. In the years immediately following the Russian Revolution, Chaliapin's family was sympathetic to their country's new Communist order, and his father, who was proclaimed a People's Artist, at one point undertook concert tours abroad to raise money for relieving the postrevolutionary famine in Soviet Russia. The younger Chaliapin embarked on the formal study of art. In 1919 he spent several months at Petrograd's academy of art, and on his return to Moscow, he worked in the studios of painters Abram Arkipov and Dimitri Kardovsky. Shortly after completing his secondary education in 1922, Chaliapin was admitted to the State Higher Arts and Technology Workshops. He wanted to study painting there, but because of crowded enrollments in the school's painting curriculum, he had to settle for courses in sculpture, under the tutelage of Sergei Konenkov. Chaliapin's primary interest remained painting, and so, after several failed efforts to shift into the workshops' painting classes, he immigrated to Paris to pursue an art training more to his liking. He was supported in that decision by his father, whose disillusionment with the Soviet regime had by then led to his own immigration to the French capital. Arriving in Paris in the summer of 1925, Chaliapin studied with a number of painters, including the fellow Russian Konstantin Korovin and an artist identified only as Gerin. It was through Gerin's timed drawing exercises, Chaliapin later said, that he developed his unusual facility for rapid and sure draftsmanship.
Career
In 1928, while appearing in an opera at London's Covent Garden, Chaliapin's father arranged for the first public exhibition of his son's work there. Consisting mostly of scenes recalling rural Russian life, the show drew complimentary newspaper notices, and over the next seven years, Chaliapin's work was included in several group shows in Paris. Among his pieces from this period is a striking portrait of Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, a family friend at whose French country house he was a frequent visitor. Chaliapin was always a steadfast realist in his painting and in later years dismissed the abstractionist trends in twentieth-century art as a "cultivated approach to insanity" fostered by "incurable delinquents. " The lack of sympathy for modernism ultimately made him ill at ease in the Paris art world, where the avant-garde was becoming ever more dominant. Yet another source of dissatisfaction was his failure to make a decent living from his art in Paris. In 1935 he sailed for the United States in the hope of finding an art community and market more receptive to his work. Settling in New York City, Chaliapin concentrated mostly on painting portraits. Owing largely to his family's connections in the world of the performing arts, many of his early subjects were actors, dancers, and musicians, among them violinist Jascha Heifetz and members of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. He received his first commission from Time magazine in 1942 for a newsmaker cover portrait, a likeness of Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru. When a few weeks later Chaliapin filled a request for a second cover portrait on a moment's notice, it was clear that his talents meshed unusually well with the magazine's needs. The crisp realism of his portraiture was entirely compatible with Time's style, and his ability to meet short press deadlines substantially increased the magazine's capacity for shifting cover subjects in the face of late-breaking news. Soon Chaliapin numbered among Time's regular cover artists, and between 1942 and 1970 he produced more than four hundred covers for the publication. Chaliapin's success at Time was the turning point of his career, and soon after his first cover was published, several advertising agencies, including J. Walter Thompson, began enlisting his services. Among his advertising work was a series of likenesses done for Magnavox of leading musical figures, such as conductor Arturo Toscanini and singer Lily Pons. His covers for Time also enhanced his standing as a studio portraitist, and in the coming years he painted noncommercial likenesses of many notables, among them conductor Fritz Reiner, novelist Theodore Dreiser, and dancer Katherine Dunham.
In 1929, Chaliapin married Maria Bobrik; they had one child. On April 11, 1942, shortly after obtaining a divorce from his first wife, Chaliapin married Helen Davidson.