Jacques CHAPIRO (1887/97-1972)

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600 - 1000 EUR
Jacques CHAPIRO (1887/97-1972)
Still life with a calf's head. Oil on panel, signed lower left. 38,5 x 46,5 cm. A few accidents in the lower right border and a few tiny detachments of the panel. A flayed calf's head rests on a cloth. The staging is simple, raw. Jacques Chapiro does not make concessions. Son of a woodcarver, he passed through the schools of Fine Arts of Kharkov, Kiev and Petrograd, decorator for the theater with Meyerhold and Stanislavski, Chapiro leaves Russia and settles in Paris, in the cities of the Beehive, in 1925. He became friends with Chaïm Soutine. The artistic fraternity is obvious here: impasto of bright colors, expressiveness and intensity of the subjects, raw rendering of bloody flesh (recalling for example The Flayed Ox of 1925). An important figure of the School of Paris, Jacques Chapiro left his mark on the painting of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his works are now kept at the Centre Pompidou.
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