Olga sacharoff biography

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Olga sacharoff biography

1889 Tbilisi, Georgia

D. 1967 Barcelona, Spain

Biography

Olga Sacharoff

B. 1889 Tbilisi, Georgia D. 1967 Barcelona, Spain

Olga Sacharoff was born in Georgia, which at the time was a part of the Russian Empire.

Her father was Russian, while her mother was of Persian origin. After studying at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, she visited Rome and traveled to Munich, where she came in contact with the German Expressionist movement.

In Germany, she met her future husband, the photographer and painter Otho Lloyd.

Beginning in 1909, Sacharoff regularly visited Paris.

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By 1912, she and Lloyd had settled in the city and were married. She exhibited frequently, in solo as well as group shows, including the annual exhibitions organized by the Salon d'Automne. Initially, her work was influenced by Paul Cézanne; soon after her move to Paris, however, she became fascinated with radical or synthetique Cubism.

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