Chaliapin seems to have been a fast worker -- hard to believe, given the amount of detail he normally placed on portraits and backgrounds. But over his 28-year grind with Time, he produced at the rate of slightly more than one cover illustration per month. And some were done on short notice such as the one of Queen Elizabeth, below, that appeared shortly after the death of her father, King George VI.
For a reason I find hard to understand, there is little in the way of biographical information on the Internet regarding Chaliapin. So allow me to offer as a link this post by David Apatoff who, like me, appreciates Chaliapin's wok.
Two portraits of the Russian ballet dancer who was living in Paris in the early 1930s, as apparently was Chaliapin. They are included to show what he was capable of in his pre-Time days.
Magazine editors chose the subjects he painted. The cover subject was the basis for a long "cover story" inside that issue.
She was a Broadway and Hollywood star.
Disneyland was to open the following summer.
Still famous.
The controversial modernist architect.
France, personified.
Thank you for posting! I love his work but his biography is not existing yet.
ReplyDeleteI thought I saw him acting in French movie that was popular in the Soviet Union circa 1956.
He also was opera singer at the Metropolitan level. At least he had a few performances there.
He looks like Caruso to me.
I'm humbled by his achievments.
I'm just student of Russian opera.