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Moses Kisling (1891 - 1953), Flowers in a vase, 1950s

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Estimations: 312 - 416 EUR
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Color lithograph on paper, framed in a beautiful silver frame, behind glass
Dimensions: in st. pp. 25,5x33cm, with frame 40x50cm
Time and place of creation: 1950s, Paris, France
Signature from imprint, l.d.: Kisling
Condition: very good

Moses Kisling (1891 - 1953). In 1907-11 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Jozef Pankiewicz. On his advice, together with Szymon Mondszajn, he left for further studies in Paris. There the critics André Salmon and Adolf Basler became interested in his work, and he also received a scholarship from an anonymous patron from Russia. He was called "the Duke of Montparnasse" because of his social colligations and financial success. He had friendly relations with Polish artists Tadeusz Makowski, Eugeniusz Zak, Ludwik Markus, Roman Kramsztyk and Mela Muter. He was awarded French citizenship for his participation in the fighting of the Foreign Legion during World War I. Wounded during the Battle of Clarency, he convalesced in Spain in 1916. During World War II, he joined the French army. In 1940, via Spain and Portugal, he left for New York. After the war, around 1946, he returned to Sanary-sur-Mer. He was one of the most prominent representatives of the Ecole de Paris of the interwar years. He had many solo exhibitions, and often participated in group exhibitions abroad as a Polish artist. He was one of the leading representatives of the École de Paris bringing together artists of Jewish origin who came from Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. "In the early phase of Kisling's work from 1912-18, his fascination with the art of Cezanne found expression; in his still lifes and landscapes, the artist synthesized and geometrized solids, piled up compositional plans, introduced an elevated point of view tightening the pictorial space. (...) Influenced by his contacts with the Cubists, he painted southern French landscapes with a geometrizing style borrowed from the paintings of Picasso and Braque from around 1909. He sought a formula of decorativeness in which synthesized architectural solids interact with the organic forms of nature. (...) In landscapes, he captured shapes in silhouette, while he gave colors an intensity comparable to a Fauvist palette. In 1917-18, in addition to views of Saint-Tropez, which were characterized by a bleached palette and ethereality, there were landscapes of deepened expression evoked by a range of sharp, strong, contrasting colors; these compositions, bordering on abstraction, concentrated in expression, were painted impasto, with diagonal brushstrokes. Some views of harbors with sailboats and a deserted waterfront alluded to the poetics of "metaphysical painting." In his landscapes, Kisling also alluded to 16th-century compositional schemes, depicting sweeping landscapes, built up behind the scenes, with suggestively rendered spatial depth." - Irena Kossowska.

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Auction of works on paper: Masters of printmaking "Krakow School" (1945-2010), Masters of modernism and contemporary artists.
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27 November 2022 CET/Warsaw
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