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Pinchus Kremegne - Still Life
Art collection
Pinchus Kremegne (1890-1981) “Still Life”
Expressionism
Oil on canvas
Pinchus Kremegne was a major player in the Ecole d’ Paris art movement (1911-1940) that centered around the foreign-born artist’s colony/building called, “La Ruche”.
Working side-by-side with Pascin, Leger, Modigliani, Soutine and Chagall, he was a rising star in his own right in the late teens and 1920s until battles with depression sidelined him at critical moments.
It is said Kremegne suffered a form of PTSD after four years of posing as a field hand in Vichy France during WWII to avoid the Jewish deportations, leading to his being productive but reclusive upon his return to Paris.
He would discover and embrace the artist-friendly town of Ceret, France and move there in 1960. After his death at least two major retrospectives were mounted, and today, the country from which he fled due to ongoing pogroms - Belarus - celebrates him as one of their own and a “genius’.
Pinchus Kremegne - Still Life
Art collection
Pinchus Kremegne (1890-1981) “Still Life”
Expressionism
Oil on canvas
Pinchus Kremegne was a major player in the Ecole d’ Paris art movement (1911-1940) that centered around the foreign-born artist’s colony/building called, “La Ruche”.
Working side-by-side with Pascin, Leger, Modigliani, Soutine and Chagall, he was a rising star in his own right in the late teens and 1920s until battles with depression sidelined him at critical moments.
It is said Kremegne suffered a form of PTSD after four years of posing as a field hand in Vichy France during WWII to avoid the Jewish deportations, leading to his being productive but reclusive upon his return to Paris.
He would discover and embrace the artist-friendly town of Ceret, France and move there in 1960. After his death at least two major retrospectives were mounted, and today, the country from which he fled due to ongoing pogroms - Belarus - celebrates him as one of their own and a “genius’.