Lutka Pink (1906 Warsaw - 1998 New York), Composition
Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 73.0 cm, frame dimensions 117.5 x 74.0 cm,
Signed p.d.: Lutka Pink
Dated on the back of the canvas by the artist's hand "janvier 1958" (January 1958);
Provenance: Former collection of Monsieur Jean Michalon, Le Chemin du Montparnasse, Paris
The works will be available for viewing on 10.12.2022 (Saturday) from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Antiquarian Art Gallery, 25 Emilii Plater Street, 00-688 Warsaw.
Biography
Lutka Pink alias Ludwika Pinkusiewicz (1906 Warsaw - 1998 New York) - Polish painter of Jewish origin. She was born in an Orthodox Jewish family as Sznajdla Łaja Pinkusiewicz. She studied from 1928 at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. She received her graduation diploma in 1934 and then devoted herself to art. In 1938, Lutka Pink received a scholarship from the Polish government, which enabled her to come to France to study. During World War II, she took refuge in Auvergne and Aix-en-Provence with painter Jan-Waclaw Zawadowski. After the war, Lutka Pink took an active part in artistic life and many solo exhibitions were devoted to her in Paris (Galerie 8, 1950; Galerie Jeanne Castel, 1952; Galerie Arnaud 1954 and 1956), but also abroad (Musée des Beaux -Arts.) Montreal, 1953; Numero Gallery in Florence, 1959; La Citadelle Gallery, Ascona, 1959; Bezabel National Museum, Jerusalem, 1961; Helena Rubinstein Museum, Tel Aviv, 1961). In the 1950s, influenced by Picasso, Braque and Chagall, Lutka Pink developed new pictorial studies and leaned toward abstraction. In the 1980s, Lutka Pink returned to figuration: large flat shapes in simplified colors structured her composition. Lutka Pink's works are in many museums: the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal; the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem; the Helena Rubinstein Museum, Tel Aviv.
