ALLAN DOUGLAS DAVIDSON or LEV TCHISTOVSKY - Which One Is Your Favorite? - Video

LEV TSCHISTOVSKY
Lev Tschistovsky was a Russian figurative painter who specialized in feminine figures. He first trained at the Fine Art School in Saint-Petersburg, where he was a pupil of Savinsky and Eberling. Laureate of his school, he left USSR in 1925 and took classes at the Fine Arts School in Roma and after in Florence. He met Irena Klestova in Venice, at the end of his twenties. She was also a pupil at the Saint-Petersburg’s Fine Arts School, and she was already exhibiting her paintings at the Salon des Independents in Paris. Lev Tchistovsky settled in Paris in Montparnasse’s district and married Irena. In his studio on Impasse du Rouet, he rubbed shoulders with Andre Breton and Tamara de Lempicka.
He died in 1969, in his house in Cénevières in the Lot French department. His wife gave a lot of his paintings to the Urbain Cabrol local Museum.

ALLAN DOUGLAS DAVIDSON
Allan Douglas Davidson was born in London on 14 May 1873. His father was the historical painter Thomas Davidson (1842–1919). Allan studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in London, where he won a medal and the Armitage Prize, he also studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. He was elected to the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1921 and was also a member of the Langham Sketching Club. He painted a small work for Queen Mary's Dolls' House. Allan Douglas Davidson predominantly worked in oils and specialized in female nudes. He lived the majority of his life in London before retiring to Walberswick in Suffolk. He died on 19 April 1932."