About the artist:

Daniil Andreyevich Solojef born in St. Petersburg on February 27 (February 14) 1908 and died on 21 in Paris 1, is a poet, painter and illustrator Russian akin to Surrealist school and neo-primitivist. Dan Solojoff was born in St. Petersburg February 14, 1908 (according to the Julian calendar in progress until 1918 in Russia) 2 in a family doctor. He left Russia in 1920 and initially stayed in Bessarabia. In 1944, he was deported with his wife in a labor camp in Germany. From 1945 to 1960, he moved to Lyon. Then, from 1960, he lives in Paris. He died October 21, 1994 in Paris. He is buried at the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne). eclectic artist his paintings (oil or gouache), not be related to any school, has characteristics closely surrealism and neo-primitivism dear to Marc Chagall he met in Cannes in 19623). Jean-Pierre Delarge4 calls it "elliptical draftsman and watercolorist symbolist sometimes Picabia resumes the system of transparency." Jerzy Waldemar Jarocinski, said Waldemar George, "his phosphorescent hues [...] gradually seal the unit and create harmony. If the pattern: Firebird or siren, is a guideline, the rate of color values ​​appears as the main reason for his pictorial poems [...]. The works of Solojoff betray a Slav painter of French education. "5 From 1957 he begins, in parallel, a career as an illustrator resulting in numerous works including those of Baudelaire editions, Verlaine, The Bible, etc. He edited himself, some of his books. His poetry is singular. Antonia Bernard, in the Journal of Slavic studies, described as "the verse is free without being released, original research without extravagance. The poet has hardly bothered to modernism of any kind, preferring a humble authenticité6. View Antonia Bernard reviews in the Journal of Slavic Studies: Year 1996 / Volume 68 / No. 68-1 PP 144-147