Sergei Aleksandrovich Zalshupin (Serge Zalchoupine, Russian: áõÃÂóõù ÃÂûõúÃÂðýôÃÂþòøàÃÂðûÃÂÃÂÿøý, pseudonym Serge Chubine or Serge Choubine, born in 1898 (or 1900), Saint Petersburg - November 3, 1931, Paris) was a Russian and French portraitist, landscape painter, book illustrator and graphic artist.
Zalshupin was born in Saint Petersburg as a son of Alexander Semenovich Zalshupin (born 1867- died 1929), publisher of the ÃÂýÃÂøúûþÿõôøàñðýúþòÃÂúþóþ ôõûð (Encyclopedia of Banking) and the periodicals àÃÂÃÂÃÂúøù ÃÂúþýþüøÃÂà(Russian Economist) and ÃÂø÷ýàø ÃÂÃÂô (Life and Law Court). From 1915 up to 1918 he studied art at the ÃÂþòðààÃÂôþöõÃÂÃÂòõýýðàüðÃÂÃÂõÃÂÃÂúðà(New Art Studio) under the painters Vasily Ivanovich Shukhaev (ÃÂðÃÂøûøù ÃÂòðýþòøàèÃÂàðõò) and Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff (ÃÂûõúÃÂðýôàÃÂòóõýÃÂõòøàïúþòûõò).
In 1921 Zalshupin emigrated to Berlin, where he worked for Russian émigré publications, providing portrait sketches and other illustrations especially to áÿþÃÂûþà(Spolokh, Russian for Alarm bell). He took part in art exhibitions, such as the Exhibition of Original Drawings of Petrograd Bookplates (1923), and became a member of the board of the Berlin Haus der Kunst. In 1923, the Berlin publishing house ÃÂðüðÃÂý (Gamayun) released an album of the artist's etchings, Portraits of Modern Russian Writers, in an edition of 100 copies, which included portraits of Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Maxim Gorky, Boris Pilnyak, Ivan Shmelev, and others. That same year, he illustrated the book Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, translated by Vladimir Nabokov.
In 1924, Zalshupin emigrated again, now to France where he lived in Paris. At the art Salon d'Automne (Autumn Salon) in Paris of 1924 and 1930 he presented his works under the pseudonym Serge Chubine.
He died in 1931 in Paris. Zalshupin's work can be found in Russia in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
Many drawings by Zalshupin are presented online by Gallica, the digital national library of France BnF.
His paintings include: