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Official Coat of Arms of Portrait Artist Igor Babailov, Hereditary Coat of Arms, Hereditary Nobility, Noble Family Coat of Arms, Heraldic achievements, Hereditary Nobility - by Official Decree of The Imperial House of Romanov, Igor Babailov, Noble Portrait Artist, Knighthood - Chevalier of the Order of Saint Anne (founded in 1735), American Noble Portrait Artist, European nobility, Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Maria

Signature of Portrait Artist Igor Babailov

IGOR V. BABAILOV
Hon.RAA, KStA, MFA (Ph.D), D.Litt (Honoris Causa)

Famous Teachers

DIRECT 'Teacher~Student'
ACADEMIC LINEAGE

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Child prodigy, Igor Babailov received his very first lessons in art from his father, Valery Babailov, who was an artist.
Igor began his FORMAL classical art training at the age of nine (9) and in the span of sixteen years (1974-1990), he attained the highest levels of the academic art education and received his MFA/ Master of Fine Arts degree (official equivalent to Ph.D. in the U.S.) under the Russian Academy of Arts (est.1757).

Igor Babailov studied directly under some of the finest artists-teachers in art history and, through his formal art education, he belongs to the direct Academic Lineage of world-famous Masters of Portraiture, Ilya Repin and Valentin Serov.

Igor Babailov's fine art education (1974 -1990), rooted in the curriculum of the acclaimed Russian traditional school of art, especially contributed to his unparalleled skill in academic drawing (or drawing from life), which today is a fundamental challenge for many painters.

CLICK on photos below for info on this direct Teacher~Student lineage

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Artist Yuon K.F., student of Serov and teacher of Zabelin, who taught Igor Babailov.

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Artist Zabelin V.N. - teacher of Igor Babailov

Artist Valery Babailov - Igor Babailov's father.

Artist Alexander Danilichev - teacher of Igor Babailov.

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Artist Kulikov I.S., the student of Ilya Repin, teacher of artist Sergey Chirkov.

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Igor Babailov's teacher was the artist Pavlov O.B., student of Korin and grandson of famous artist Alexei Savrasov, who was also a teacher of preeminent landscape artist Isaac Levitan.

Famour artist Gerasimov S.V., student of Serov and Arkhipov, was the teacher of artist A. Danilichev, the teacher of Igor Babailov.

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Serov

Yuon

Levitan

Repin

Chistyakov

Arkhipov

Kulikov

Kramskoy

Babailov

Kholmogorov

Tsyplakov

Danilichev

Zabelin

Chirkov

Kibrik

Pavlov

Korin

Korovin

Gerasimov

Deineka

Shatsky

Igor Babailov - Hon. Academician, Portrait Artist, Scholar, Knight, third generation student of Repin and Serov.

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International Students of Igor V. Babailov

Nota bene:

The academic lineage herein stands far beyond inspirational moments of occasional meetings with the masters, i.e. attending their public portrait demonstrations, and/or inspirational stories of such, told by mentors, friends and acquaintances.

This lineage represents unbroken consecutive lessons, passed on directly from Teacher to Student, during a sustained period of time of formal academic education that resulted in earning a terminal Fine Art degree.

Igor V. Babailov, Hon. RAA, ellected Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (est.1757) shares his expertise of the highest fine art education and academic credentials with his fellow professional artists and art students in the U.S., Canada, Italy, Russia and around the globe.

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