Savely Sorin

Savely  Abramovich  Sorin 

1878-1953

''Born in Polotsk, Vitebsk, in 1873, Sorin enrolled at the Odessa Art School in 1896 where he studied under Kiriak Kostandi until 1899, whence he went on to study in Repin's workshop at the Imperial Academy until 1907. He developed a great reputation as a society portraitist and between 1900 and 1910, many of the leading cultural and social figures of the time sat for him, including Feodor Chaliapin, Anna Akhmatova, and Tamara Karsavina. Sorin participated in the December 1916 Mir Iskusstva exhibition in Moscow, and in 1920 emigrated to Paris shortly afterwards going to New York. Throughout the 1920's and 30's, he continued his successful career as a portrait painter and, amongst others, Balanchine, Mikhail Fokine, various members of the British Royal family, as well as Anna Pavlova, posed for him''.

''Savely Sorin , actively worked in the West and little known in Russia. In Soviet times, his work is considered a model of bourgeois taste, but in fact, portraits of Sorin's similar with the neoclassical, salon line of Art Deco style. The works of Boris Kustodiev, which also includes a display, can be attributed to Art Deco in its pure form, but they are grotesque, easy and decorative inherent in its stylistic concept. ''

 Margaret Dorothy Kahn

" Margaret (Nin) Dorothy Kahn (later Nin Ryan) (born July 4, 1901 in Morristown, New Jersey, died on January 26, 1995 in New York City) was an American art collector and patron.

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The daughter of German-born banker Otto Hermann Kahn, U.S., which has been called since they were children Nin married on 9 February 1928 John Barry Ryan, Jr. (1901-1966) and was with him two children, John Barry Ryan III and Virginia Fortune Ryan, later Countess of Airlie.

The death of the Father (1934) made them (and their siblings) million to heirs. The Ryans were active then as an art collector and promoter of young talent. They particularly praised the art of the French Impressionists. The Ryan Collection, there were works by Manet, Cezanne, Pissarro, Monet, Renoir, Vuillard, and many more.

Nin Ryan was regarded as very well read and generous. She loved the music and the old Europe. " They also owned a house in London, trying to live as often there

 Janice Ferrar Regan

Daughter of  F. Shalyapin