Boris Chaliapin Woman and the swan 1973

Boris Chaliapin (1904-1979), Thelonious Monk, 1964

Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 49.8 cm

Boris Chaliapin (American, 1904-1979) • Martin Luther King Jr. • 1957 • Watercolor and pencil on board • National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Time magazine, Volume 61 Issue 1, 1953, illustration by Boris Chaliapin

Portrait of Monk by Boris Chaliapin for TIME magazine cover, 1964.

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Legendary Russian bass singer Fyodor Chaliapin (1873 - 1938) is born in Tartarstan. Possessing a deep and expressive bass voice, Chaliapin enjoyed a long and important international career at major opera houses, and is often credited with establishing the tradition of "naturalistic" acting in opera. As two young men, Chaliapin met Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), who was serving as an assistant conductor at a regional theater. They became fast friends, and remained close for the rest of their lives. Chaliapin later recalled that Rachmaninoff taught him much about musicianship and insisted that Chaliapin learn not only his own roles, but also all of the other roles in the operas in which he was scheduled to appear. It was with Rachmaninoff that he applied this approach to the title role of Boris in Modest Mussorgsky's (1839 - 1881) "Boris Godunov" (1874), which soon became his signature character. Chaliapin returned the favor by showing Rachmaninoff how he built each of his interpretations around a single culminating moment, or "the point." Regardless of where the point was within that piece, Chaliapin believed that the performer had to have it in mind at all times and approach it (and then depart from it again) with calculation; otherwise, the piece could become disjointed. Rachmaninoff accepted this as an important and insightful model of interpretation, and famously put it to use when he became a full-time concert-pianist after World War I. In 1913, Chaliapin -- by then already a feted opera performer -- was introduced to London and Paris by the brilliant impresario Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), at which point he also began giving well-received solo recitals in which he sang traditional Russian folk-songs as well as more serious fare. Reflecting on his career later in life, legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini opined that Chaliapin was the single greatest operatic talent with whom he had ever worked. PICTURED: A beautiful matte-finished publicity photo showing Chaliapin dressed up in costume as Boris Godunov, which he signed and inscribed for a fan in London in 1929.

BORIS CHALIAPIN (1904-1979) Russian/American

1928

Boris Chaliapin: portret Josipa Broza Tita za časopis Time, 1944. 

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994.

Art by Boris Chaliapin.

Boris Chaliapin Standing nude 1929

On February 28th, 1964, Thelonious Monk was Historically featured on the cover of TIME magazine. Portrait of Thelonious Monk, by Boris Chaliapin, 1964. Accompanying an article written by Barry Farrell, the significance of this cover conveyed the extent of Monk’s fame and facilitated his musical reach.

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Boris Chaliapin (Russia, 1902-1979)

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Boris Chaliapin (Russian/American, 1904-1979)

Portrait of a woman wearing red lipstick, nd

Pencil, watercolour, gouache on artist board

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Boris Chaliapin