Printer: Mourlot

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Condition: Very good 

Frame: Oak

Artist: André Lanskoy (1903 - 1976) was a Russian artist. Born in Moscow in 1902, he fought on the Crimean front with the Tzarist army in 1919 before fleeing to Paris in 1921, where he met other Russian artists. He studied at the Academy of the Grande-Chaumière and became friends with Soutine. Inspired by Van Gogh and Matisse, he painted landscapes, still-lifes and portraits and exhibited at his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1925. After 1937, he began to move away from abstraction and figurative work and moved towards informal painting in gouache. He is remembered for his love of colour, ‘I think that it is the love that one puts colour on his palette and poses on his canvas that heats and illuminates the painting.’

His rich, colourful style is both sensitive and vibrant. A popular artist, painter, illustrated works, and creator of mosaics, collages and cartoons for tapestry, he exhibited all over the world to become one of the last living representatives of the Russian School along with Nicolas de Staël, Charchoune and Poliakoff.