Boris Smirnoff

Boris Smirnoff (1903 - 2007) was a Franco-Russian cubist, avant-gardist and analytical art painter.

Vladimir was known as the artist-amateur and the futurist, big admirer of David Burliuk and Vasily Kamensky.

All this oils and pastels were burned by the German invaders as "degenerate art" during the Second World War.

After the Second World War Boris Smirnoff had lived in Great Britain and Lisbon, Portugal, in Malaysia and Singapore, in Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Today, one of the key locations the public can see his art is at the Vineyard Hotel, Newbury, Berkshire, England.

"Still life with samovar and bread", watercolour painted by Boris Smirnoff