Serge Choubine (Russian, 1900-1931)

Serge Choubine (born: Sergey Zalshupin) was a Russian painter from St Petersburg. In 1915 he began his artistic education in the studio of Vassily Shukchaev and Alexander Yakovlev. In 1921 he left for Berlin, where he published portraits in an emigre magazine. He was commissioned to create illustrations for a publication of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (translated by Vladimir Nabokov).

In 1924 Choubine moved to Paris, where he painted portraits and landscapes. Serge became friends with Moise Kiesling and was included in the social circle of École de Paris artists, he exhibited at Salon d'Automne in 1924 and 1930.

Works by Serge Choubine are held in the collections of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art and The State Museum of Literature in Moscow.