Michel de Séréville [SEP] place of birth
Michel de Séréville
Michel de Séréville, a French artist, was born in Saumur, France 28 April 1922, and died February 23, 2006 in Paris.
Biography.
Michel de Séréville spent his childhood living between a medieval castle in a remote area of Lorraine, and an old family house in the Basque region. His father was a colonel in the Cadre Noir regiment.
After studying architecture at l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, in 1941 he started dancing ballet. He was noticed by Alexandre Volinine
de Séréville illustrated the works of Henri Troyat, Graham Greene, François Mauriac, Simone de Beauvoir, Alain Decaux, and Maurice Druon, among others.
Michel de Séréville exhibited his art internationally, with exhibitions in France, the United States, Russia, Ukraine, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, and Kenya. Significant Soviet exhibitions included: Kiev in 1966, Moscow in 1968, and Leningrad in 1970.
In 1975, Pierre Emmanuel, director of the newly created National Institute of the Audio-Visual, offered Séréville