Boris Chaliapin

Boris Chaliapin (Russian: Борис Фёдорович Шаля́пин; September 22, 1904 – May 18, 1979) was an artist for Time magazine, for which he illustrated more than 400 covers, from 1942 (Jawaharlal Nehru) to Richard Nixon).

He was the third of six children; one sibling was The Name of the Rose film star Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.[2] He spent his childhood in Moscow.

Chaliapin in London's Covent Garden, he opened the first exhibition of ten works in the lobby of the theater: a portrait of Lydia's sister, drawings on Russian themes: In the Tea Room, Gypsies at the Fair, Merchant, Stepan Razin, Pugachev, etc.

Participated in exhibitions of Russian art in the Paris galleries d'Alignan (1931), La Renaissance (1932), the Yteb hall (1935), in Boulogne-Billancourt (1935) and in Prague (1935).

He belongs to a group of illustrators of during the golden age of Time covers, including Boris Artzybasheff, Robert Vickrey, James Ormsbee Chapin and Bernard Safran.