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Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin, also known as Serge Soudeikine, was a Russian artist and set-designer associated with the Ballets Russes and the Metropolitan Opera.

Having been banned from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture for his "obscene drawings", Sudeikin joined the Mir Iskusstva movement. His close friends included the poet Mikhail Kuzmin and the impresario Serge Diaghilev, at whose invitation he came to Paris in 1906 for the Salon d'Automne Exhibition, where his work was first shown abroad. From 1907 to 1918 he was married to actress Olga Glebova (1885–1945), one of the famed beauties of St Petersburg and the closest friend of Anna Akhmatova. Glebova-Sudeikina is the principal character and addressee of Akhmatova's longest work, The Poem Without Hero (1940–65).

Sudeikin designed the sets and costumes for Diaghilev's production of La tragédie de Salomé by Florent Schmitt in 1913, and assisted in the execution of Nicholas Roerich's designs for Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring the same year. By the time of the October Revolution Sudeikin was among the foremost theatrical designers in Russia. In 1913 he had eloped to Paris with the dancer Vera de Bosset, whom he subsequently married, and who in the 1920s left him to become the mistress and ultimately second wife of Stravinsky.

In 1926 he prepared artwork for the 1926 Broadway production of Nikolai Evreinov's The Chief Thing. Soudeikine later designed the settings for the original Theatre Guild production of Porgy and Bess that first opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre in New York City on October 10, 1935.

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Woman in blue dress

Woman in blue dress

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
Childhood of Nikita

Childhood of Nikita

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
Woman in a black dress and blue boa holding a dog

Woman in a black dress and blue boa holding a dog

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
Man wearing a purple and red vest, with a pince-nez and bowler

Man wearing a purple and red vest, with a pince-nez and bowler

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
Man in a checkered suit

Man in a checkered suit

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
Soldat

Soldat

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
Two clown costumes, red and black

Two clown costumes, red and black

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
Old man with a cane

Old man with a cane

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
Russian Fairy Tale

Russian Fairy Tale

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
Costume design for ‘The Fairy Doll’ ballet

Costume design for ‘The Fairy Doll’ ballet

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
Jeune equilibriste

Jeune equilibriste

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
Jester

Jester

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
Man with a bandaged jaw

Man with a bandaged jaw

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
Bacchant

Bacchant

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
La Hire, chef de guerre

La Hire, chef de guerre

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin (Russian, 1882-1946)
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