Vladimir Izdebskiy was a sculptor born on June 3, 1882, in Kiev, Ukraine.
After taking part in the 1905 Russian uprisings he was expelled from the school.
In 1907 he returned to Odessa and began to give drawing lessons.
He later fled from Petrograd to reunite with the rest of his family in Paris.
In 1941, during World War II, Izdebskiy fled France and lived in New York from that point on.