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Paintings of the School of Paris 1905-1939
AUCTION SALE 23 MARCH 2011, 2.30PM
Artcurial 7 Rond Point Des Champs Elysées, Paris
COLLECTION I.B FRYDMAN, PARIS. COLLECTION JEAN AND BLUETTE NORDMANN, FRIBOURG AND OTHERS.
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Zborowski , Perelman , Kramsztyk , Hayden, Zak ......la rotonde 1925
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The Auction house Artcurial-Briest-Poulain-F.Tajan assisted by the Art Expert Nadine Nieszawer , is pleased to present an important new auction with 180 artworks including tow major private collections from Paris, Fribourg.
The School of Paris is an expression created in 1925 by the art critic André Warnod in the art newspaper "Comoedia" to define a group of artists from abroad living in Paris. Close to Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine at “La Ruche”, they all took part in the intellectual emancipation of a new generation of painters.
Our sale offers to rediscover the Parisian artistic effervescence of those years and the work of these painters with different destinies. The estimates run from 300€ to 100 000€.
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Mela MUTER (Warsaw, 1876- Paris, 1967)
LITTLE GIRLS, circa 1913-1915
Oil on canvas on both sides (Landscape) signed lower left "Muter"
109 x 85 cm
Provenance : The Barge-Gmurzynska Gallery, Cologne 1987 Private Collection
Let’s start with a woman, the Polish Mela Muter, arrived in 1901 in Paris, close to the School of Pont-Aven with two wonderful paintings “Les Petites Filles” from 1912-1914 (100 000 / 150 000€ ) and the portrait of Igor Rozycki (40 000 / 50 000 €).
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Pinchus KREMEGNE (Zaloudock, 1890- Céret, 1981)
STILL LIFE WITH PLASTER, circa 1920
Oil on canvas signed lower left "Kremegne"
92 x 73 cm
Comment : The authenticity of this work was kindly supported by Jeannette Kremegne
Estimate : 8 000-10 000€
The work of the Byelorussian expressionist artist, Pinchus Kremegne will be very present with a set of about twenty works covering its production since the 20s until 1950. (From 2 000 to 8 000 €).
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Michel KIKOINE (Gomel, 1892- Cannes, 1968)
YOUNG GIRL WITH RED TIGHTS,, circa 1960-1961
Oil on canvas signed lower right "Kikoine" and countersigned on the reverse and titled "Youth in Kikoine"
81,50 x 65 cm
Provenance: Galerie Jacques Chalom, Paris Private American collection
Exhibition : London, Crane Kalman Gallery, "Kikoïne", April-May 1961, No. 4
New York Gallery Nechemia Glezer, "Pail, Kikoïne, Aldus," December 1962, No. 12
Bibliography : Edouard Roditi, Mendel Mann, Jacques Yankel, "Kikoine" Edition Art H. Piazza, Paris, 1973, No. 687, reproduced page 345
Estimate : 25 000-30 000€
We could also find 8 paintings of Michel Kikoine, long time friend of Soutine, with a painting such as “Young girl with red tights”, an
important work which reinvent the tradition of the icon, representing a pretty girl carrying “La Ruche” in her arms (25 000 to 30 000 €).
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MANE-KATZ (Krementchoug, 1884-Haifa,1962)
MARRIAGE
Oil on canvas Signed lower right "Mane-Katz", countersigned and dated back titled "MANE-KATZ
109,50 x 116,50 cm
Provenance : Galerie FERRERO, Fribourg (switzerland) Galerie CHARPENTIER, Paris Collection Jean et Bluette Nordmann, Fribourg, switzerland
Exhibitions : Galerie FERRERO, Fribourg (switzerland) , exhibition 1965 ref. 16, Galerie CHARPENTIER, Paris, "Ecole de Paris", 1957, n° 71
Estimate : 80 000-100 000€
Mane Katz, the painter of Joy is also represented in this sale with a painting depicting a wedding (80 000 / 100 000 €) and another, a rare scene of jewish students from a Swiss collection (30 000 / 40 000 €)
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ADOLPH FEDER (Odessa, 1886- Auschwitz, 1945)
LANDSCAPE, circa 1915
Oil on canvas signed lower left "Feder"
127 x 96 cm
Estimate : 10 000-12 000€
Some of them have been close to Cubism such as Hayden whom we present 3 paintings from the thirthies. Others like Feder, traveled a lot, with 10 paintings and one remembering a cezanian landscape from the fifties (10 000 / 12 000 euros), present in the sale.
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Moïse Kisling (Cracovie,1891-Sanary-s/mer,1953)
PORTRAIT OF A BROWN, 1930
Oil on canvas signed upper right 'Kisling'
35 x 26 cm
Provenance : Collection Oscar Ghez, Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva Sales, Versailles, Hôtel Rameau, Master Georges Blache, June 11, 1974 Purchased at the sale by the current owner
Bibliography : John Kisling, "Kisling 1891-1953", Volume 1, 1971, reproduced and listed as No. 122 page 170.
Estimate : 10 000-12 000€
From Moise Kisling, a very nice Portrait estimated 20 000 / 30 000 euros.
A portait of Hermine David reading, from 1908 estimated (30 000 / 50 000
euros) by the bulgarian Pascin from the Cuban era and also drawings from the same artist.
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Henri Epstein (Lodz, 1892 - Auschwitz, 1944)
WOMAN IN PINK BLOUSE, circa 1915
Oil on canvas signed lower right "H. Epstein"
92,50 x 65,50 cm
Estimate : 8 000-10 000€
No less than 12 paintings by Henry Epstein are presented. Epstein was well known for his involvement to the first magazine of art in Yiddish. Among these paintings, this outstanding work of a young woman in a pink blouse.
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Also part of the sale
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Also part of the sale, the work of the Hungarian Bela Czobel, friend of Matisse, for his still life (4 000 / 6 000 €).
Also to sale in this auction, portraits of the expressionist Sigmund Menkes with two paintings of the twenties, the married girl and the women in red (8 000 / 10 000 euros) or Simon Mondzain
, a portrait of a soldier in blue (6 000 / 8 000 euros) and of Joachim Weingart from Galicie, a lot of 6 creations (1500 / 3000 euros). to finish the very searched Max Band with portraits from the Parisian period.
You will also find works of art from, the three friends artists Volovick, Naiditch and Pikelny
especially with a rare portrait estimated (2 000 / 4 000 euros); a painting of Hossiasson from the early twenties (3 000 / 4 000 euros) and an abstractive one of 1956 ( 4 000 / 5 000 euros). Also Isaac Pailes
his good friend, will also be well represented with 12 figurative paintings from the late thirties (1000 / 5000 euros). Finally, Ryback and Mintchine will also be part of the sale with 4 paintings each (4 000 / 10 000euros).
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Artists of the auction
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