Boris Lovet-Lorski (American 1894-1973)
Sculptor and graphic artist Lovet-Lorski was born in Lithuania in 1894 and studied art at the Imperial Academy of Art in St. Petersburg where he worked briefly as an architect. In 1920, Lovet-Lorski moved to the United States and settled in New York City and in five years hence received his American citizenship.
During his working life, he achieved prominence as a Modernist sculptor but in view of the fact that his work was mainly commissioned by private clients, his work began to slip into obscurity. A decade after his death, a large selection of his major works of the 1920s and 1930s were discovered in his New York atelier bringing his art into prominence once again.
Lovet-Lorski's style was eclectic but his work in the Modern style is the most individualistic and impressive. The female nude became his subject whether in marble or as a lithographic print. No other sculptor in America caught the prevailing French Art Deco mood as effectively or poignantly as Lovet-Lorski.
He was an associate member of the National Academy of Design and a member of the National Sculpture Society, as well as the Salons of Paris.
Public collections include: Boston University
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
British Museum, London
Columbia University
Los Angeles Museum of Art
- Luxembourg Museum, Paris
Petit Palais, Paris
San Diego Fine Arts Society
San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts
Seattle Art Museum