Tola Soungouroff
Published in 2024 by Éditions Hors Champ in Paris, this 200-page hardcover volume marks the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the painter Anatola Soungouroff (1911–1982). With 124 colour and black-and-white reproductions — including paintings, drawings, photographs, and archival documents, many of them previously unpublished — photographer and editor Sylvain Bourdoux has assembled a visual record that restores a largely overlooked figure to his proper place in twentieth-century figurative art. A preface by Julien Gomez-Estienne provides scholarly framing for the body of work.
Born in 1911 in Reval (present-day Tallinn, Estonia), Anatola Soungouroff arrived in Paris at the age of twenty following the upheaval of the Russian Revolution. Over the following decades, working from studios in the French capital and later in the south of France near Cannes and Pierrefeu-du-Var, he developed a distinctive figurative language centred on the male form. His portraits of young working-class Parisians, rendered with a warm, luminous palette and a frank sensibility rare for the era, placed him in a discreet but steady dialogue with a broader European tradition of academic figure painting — while remaining firmly his own. He died in Pierrefeu-du-Var in 1982, with much of his output still in private hands.
Imago Dei offers this monograph as both a collector’s reference and an invitation to engage with a body of work that rewards sustained attention. The volume is in new condition, published in a first edition by Éditions Hors Champ.
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