Vladimir Polunin

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Vladimir Jacolievitch Polunin (Владимир Яковлевич Полунин) (1880 – 11 March 1957) was a Russian artist, stage designer, and stage scene painter.{{Citation |last=Polunin |first=Vladimir |title=Dust Jacket from The Continental Method of Scene Painting |date=1980 |orig-date=First published 1927 |place= London |publisher=Dance Books Ltd. |url=https://archive.org/details/continentalmetho0000polu/page/n5/mode/2up

|isbn=0903102579 |language=en |access-date=12 November 2024}}

Polunin was born in Moscow and studied art in Munich and Paris.{{Citation |last=Polunin |first=Vladimir |title=Dust Jacket from The Continental Method of Scene Painting |date=1980 |orig-date=First published 1927 |place= London |publisher=Dance Books Ltd. |url=https://archive.org/details/continentalmetho0000polu/page/n5/mode/2up

|isbn=0903102579 |language=en |access-date=12 November 2024}} In 1908 he emigrated to London to work as a designer for the Ballets russes. He was Diaghilev's chief scene-painter and worked with Picasso.Haskell and Clarke, ({{p.|149}}); and Boston, ({{p.|73}} Among Polunin's students was Karen Harris, daughter of the banker Sir Austin Harris.[http://dl.lib.brown.edu/mjp/render.php?view=mjp_object&id=mjp.2005.02.1067#main The modernist Journals Project]

In London, he met one of the artists Sergei Diaghilev was trying hard to get work for, the sculptor and costume designer Elizabeth Violet Hart. She was an English introduced in the Parisian Bohemia by Henri-Pierre Roché and heroine of the novel {{ill|Deux Anglaises et le continent|fr}}. They were married the same year.{{When|date=August 2023}} At that time he was a teacher at the Slade School of Fine Art.{{Cite book |last=Zweigbergk |first=Britta von |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYmStybaV20C&dq=%22Slade+School+of+Fine+Art%22+%22vladimir+polunin%22&pg=PA64 |title=Tony's war: the life and times of a WW2 Typhoon pilot |date=2007 |publisher=Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu |isbn=978-1-84386-291-8 |pages=64 |language=en}}

He was the father of botanists Nicholas Polunin and Oleg Polunin, as well as physician Ivan Polunin.{{Cite news|language=en|first1=Arthur|last1=Westing|title=Obituary: Nicholas Polunin|journal=The Independent|date=16 December 1997|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-nicholas-polunin-1289122.html}}

Polunin died on 11 March 1957 in the UK.{{cn|date=January 2023}}{{Cite web |title=Vladimir Polunin designer |url=https://www.buru.org.uk/record.php?id=841 |access-date=2023-08-22 |website=buru.org.uk}}