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Fleurs by MOÏSE KISLING - still life, oil on canvas, flowers, post-Impressionist
1916

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Fleurs by MOÏSE KISLING (1891-1953) Oil on canvas 51.4 x 41.1 cm (20 ¹/₄ x 16 ¹/₈ inches) Signed lower left, Kisling; signed on the reverse Executed in 1916 Provenance Collection of Ida Kimche, Tel Aviv Sotheby's London, 29th June 1988 Le Houelleur Scp, 21st August 1992 Martin du Nord & de Bouvet, Paris, 13th February 1994 Private collection Literature Jean Kisling, Kisling 1891-1953, vol. II, 1982, p.190, no.1 (illustrated) This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Jean Kisling and dated 28th of November 1990. This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné de l'Œuvre de Moise Kisling vol.4 currently being prepared by Jean Kisling and Marc Ottavi. Artist biography Moïse Kisling was born Mojżesz Kisling in 1891 in Kraków which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków, where his teachers included Jozef Pankiewicz, a fervent admirer of Auguste Renoir and the French Impressionists who encouraged him to travel to Paris, the international centre for artistic creativity in the early 20th century. In 1910, Kisling moved to Montmartre in Paris, and a few years later to Montparnasse where he lived for the next 27 years and became part of an émigré community which included the artists Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Jules Pascin, Max Jacob, André Salmon and Chaïm Soutine. Jules Pascin and later Amedeo Modigliani lived in the same building and Modigliani painted a portrait of him in 1916 (in the collection of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris). His style used in painting landscapes is similar to that of Marc Chagall and, a master at depicting the female body, his surreal nudes and portraits earned him the widest acclaim. At the outbreak of World War I he volunteered for service in the French Foreign Legion, and in 1915 he was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Somme, for which he was awarded French citizenship. Kisling volunteered for army service again in 1940 during World War II, although he was 49. When the French Army was discharged at the time of the surrender to the Germans, Kisling emigrated to the United States as he rightly feared for his safety as a Jew in occupied France. He exhibited in New York and Washington. He settled in California, where he lived until 1946. Moise Kisling returned to France after the war and defeat of Germany and died in 1953 in Sanary-sur-Mer, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France where a residential street in the town is named after him.

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Artist
Moise Kisling (1891 - 1953, Polish/French)
Creation Year
1916
Medium
Oil

Movement & Style
Modern
Condition
Excellent
Period
20th Century

Dimensions
H 20.24 in. x W 16.19 in.H 51.4 cm x W 41.1 cm
Gallery Location
London, GB
Reference Number
LU26125063731

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