Serge Gladky was a prominent Ukrainian artist who worked in France, known for his striking Art Deco designs. His work features vibrant geometric shapes, bold lines, and stylised natural motifs. Gladky’s compositions often balance symmetry and abstraction, creating visually captivating patterns that epitomise the elegance and innovation of the Art Deco movement.
Serge Gladky was a prominent Ukrainian artist who worked in France, known for his striking Art Deco designs. His work features vibrant geometric shapes, bold lines, and stylised natural motifs. Gladky’s compositions often balance symmetry and abstraction, creating visually captivating patterns that epitomise the elegance and innovation of the Art Deco movement.
This download features 16 hi-res images in JPEG format by the artist Serge Gladky.
The images are all 600dpi and range in size from 4480 pixels wide to 7176 pixels tall.
The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.
Serge Gladky (1880s-1952)was born in the Poltava region in Ukraine. He studied in St Petersburg and, in 1924-26, published the magazine ‘Umeni Slovanu’ (‘Slavic Art’) based in Czechoslovakia.
After 1924, he lived in France, where he started an “art and advertising decorating business” according to Anna Ermolaeva, his biographer. During or just before World War II, he returned to Ukraine, and his fate has been generally unknown since then. According to Ermolaeva, he was sent to the Gulag in 1945 for “anti-Soviet activities” and died in the far north in 1952.
Gladky published his works using the pochoir (stencil) technique popular in France at the time, employing ornamental and geometric patterns often inspired by nature and animals. Colourful pochoirs had to be printed in a limited number of copies to maintain the brightness of colour, so they command high prices today due to their rarity.
The pictures in our collections are out of copyright in the United States, the UK, Canada, most of Europe, Australia and all countries that follow the lifetime plus 70 years rule. Read our blog post about public domain copyright rules for more information.
