Ivan Puni
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Ivan Albertovich Puni was a Russian avant-garde and French artist, who intensively changed his style until it went into lyric Primitivism in the direction of Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard.
Ivan Puni
Ivan Puni, 1914, Portrait of Artist's Wife (Портрет жены художника), oil on canvas, 89 x 62.5 cm, The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Kseniya Boguslavskaya
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Kseniya or Xenia Leonidovna Boguslavskaya, also known as Xana Puni, was a Russian avant-garde artist, illustrator and scenic designer. She was the wife of the painter Ivan Puni.
Ivan Puni
…at the Académie Julian and other schools, where he painted in a derivative fauviste style. Upon his return to Russia in 1912, he married fellow artist Xenia Boguslavskaya, and met, and exhibited with, members of the St Petersburg avant-garde, including Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin. He made a second trip to Paris…
Velemir Khlebnikov Reads Poetry to Kseniya Boguslavskaya by Ivan Puni, 1915