Dimensions: 29.5 x 46.5 cm (in light passe-partout)
Wax auction and legacy stamp of the artist issued by Guy Loudmer auction house p.d.
Origins
DESA Unicum, March 2010
private collection, Poland
Biography
Painter belonging to the circle of École de Paris. He was born into a family of Jewish merchants settled in Odesa. Due to his leftist political sympathies, he left tsarist Russia and at the age of nineteen moved to Berlin and then to Geneva, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1908 he arrived in Paris. He began his studies at the popular Académie Julian and then at the atelier of Henri Matisse. He belonged to the École de Paris circle, a community of artists living in La Ruche and regulars at the La Rotonde café. He exhibited periodically at the Salons: Autumn, Independent and des Tuileries, and in 1928 two major galleries, Galerie Marcel Bernheim and Galerie Druet, organized solo exhibitions of the artist's work. He traveled extensively - he visited Brittany, Spain with the Basque Country and Algeria. In 1926 he stayed in Palestine. His work belongs to the expressive-color trend of the Paris School. He painted portraits, still lifes and landscapes.
