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Simka SimkhovitchHead of a Gentleman sketch, mid modern1926
1926
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A superbly executed work, this work would have been done for reproduction in a book or magazine. Simkhovitch received quite a number of illustration jobs and could adapt his style to what was needed. A well trained academically trained artist, he could render impressive figurative works. There were a series of finely drawn and colored works with this feel in the estate of the artist and its not evident what job or publication they would have been for. It stands alone, as a lovely and sensitively rendered work of a gentleman from whom Simkhovitch probably drew from a photograph.
The sight size of the work is 12 3/4 x 11. The size noted in description are the framed dimensions!
- Creator:Simka Simkhovitch (1893 - 1949, Russian, American)
- Creation Year:1926
- Dimensions:Height: 26.25 in (66.68 cm)Width: 21.75 in (55.25 cm)
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- Condition:The drawing is in generally good condition and frame is 24 Karat gold and matting archival and new. On the drawing in the face in the cheek area is a slight dark mark, probably not done by the artist.
- Gallery Location:Greenwich, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU141327202792
Simka Simkhovitch
Simka Simkhovitch was born near the city of Kiev, Russia. When he was 7, he spent a year in bed with a severe case of measles. To amuse himself he used to sketch an old mill outside his window, and thus decided to become an artist. He studied at an art school in Odessa and was recommended to attend the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg (a singular honor in Russia at the time) before the war and revolution. Swept up into the army before he could attend, his work was hung in the Museum of Revolution in Leningrad. He resumed his studies in 1914 and graduated four years later. He was sent to the United States in 1924 to do illustrations for Soviet textbooks. He quickly applied for and gained U.S. citizenship. Simkhovitch integrated with the art world immediately and galleries such as Midtown Galleries and Marie Sterner took him on as part of their stable of artists. He also was employed by the WPA and executed major mural commissions throughout the country. One of his largest commissions was the Mississippi Court House. Life magazine profiled him twice with full-length features on his life here in this country as an artist. When he died at an early age, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York offered to do a retrospective and the widow denied the possibility and simply put his works away in storage. Considered a master draftsman and an adherent of certain classicism, Simkhovitch’s compositions are often built up in a complicated but well-managed counterpoint. But at heart, he is a romanticist preferring the dreamy colors of a Russian fairy tale.
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