Dimensions: 60 x 73 cm
signed and dated lower left: 'Jacques Chapiro [barely legible] 1922’
Inventory numbers on the stretcher
Provenance
private collection, France
Private collection, Poland
Biography
Chapiro’s paintings are very diverse; some are distinctly Cubist in style, while others draw on the styles of the Impressionists and Fauvists—it seems that this artist enjoyed experimenting. He was friends with Marc Chagall and Raymond Cogniat. The son of a Lithuanian woodcarver, he began his artistic education at the age of ten. In 1915, he moved to Kraków to study at the Academy of Fine Arts; from 1918, he studied in Kyiv. During the Revolution, he designed posters; from 1921 onward, he studied in St. Petersburg while working as a theater set designer. In 1925, he left Russia for Paris and settled in Montparnasse. Beginning in 1926, he exhibited his works at venues including the Salon des Indépendants. In 1939, he fled Paris and went into hiding. His works are held in museums in the United States (Chicago), Russia (Moscow), and France (Jeu de Paume, Paris).
