Printer: Mourlot

Dimensions: 65 x 46.5 cm

Condition: Good condition, slight wear and tear. 

Frame: Framed in oak.

Description: Original colour lithographic exhibition poster by Constantin Terechkovitch, created for a group exhibition at Galerie Rapaire in Monte-Carlo.

The exhibition brought together an impressive group of artists associated with modern French painting and the École de Paris, including Raoul Dufy, Bernard Buffet, Marc Chagall, Marcel Gromaire, Maurice Utrillo, Kees van Dongen and Maurice de Vlaminck, alongside Terechkovitch himself.

Terechkovitch’s delicate portrait of a woman in an elaborate floral headdress sits above the artists’ names, combining loose, painterly marks with the luminous colour and elegant figurative style for which he became known.

Artist: Constantin (Kostia) Terechkovitch (1902-1978) was a Russian painter. He was born near Moscow and initially studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architechture in 1917 but had to flee the country during the Russian Revolution. He went to Paris and enrolled at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and moved into a Russian community in Montparnasse and met Mikhail Larionov and Soutine. He was influenced by Bonnard and associated with a group of artists incuding Roland Oudot, Maurice Brianchon, André Planson and Jules Cavaillès. As well as painting colourful landscapes, towns and portraits, he worked on the sets and costumes for a ballet in Monte-Carlo in 1933 where he met his wife. After the Second World War, his interests extended to sport and horses, owning his own racing yard. He died in Monaco in 1978.