The Dancer Nattova
Yourievich, Serge
1880 - 1969
The Dancer Nattova
Bronze on a marble support
39 (high) x 22 (wide)cm
1915
Signed and titled on base
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Paris
Natasha Nattova was a leading avant garde Russian ballerina who moved to the West and successfully took up Burlesque and Cabaret in London in Paris.
Nattova photographed in Paris in January 1929.
Acting in 'Playtime' in the Piccadilly Theatre in the 1920's.
Prince Serge Yourievich was born into a leading Russian family in 1880. He was a chamberlain at the Russian Imperial Court and sent to Paris in 1903. Here he met and fell under the spell of August Rodin who encouraged him to take lessons and become a sculptor. In 1909 Yourievich renounced his diplomatic career and became a full time sculptor and started to exhibit at the Salon Des Independents. During the revolution in 1918 he emigrated to Paris and he worked as a sculptor in New York, London and Paris. In 1931 he had a well received show in New York. In the 1950's he taught at the Guildford School of Art in England. He was also a founding member of the Institute of Psychology in Paris.
