Michel Kikoïne

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Michel Kikoïne (Belarusian Міхаіл Кікоін , Russian Михаил Кико́ин Michail Kikóin ; born May 31, 1892 in Retschyza , today Belarus ; † November 4, 1968 in Cannes ) was a (white) Russian-French painter of the École de Paris of the 1920s.

Life

Born as the son of a Jewish banker from Homel , Mikhail Kikóin (as his name was spelled at the time) learned to paint first in Minsk , then in Vilnius, now in Lithuania . In 1911 or 1912 he came to Paris with his friend Chaim Soutine , where he lived in the La Ruche artists' colony in the Montparnasse district and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts . He was friends with Pinchus Kremegne . Kikoïne married in 1914 and had a daughter (Claire) and a son, who also became a painter. In the same year he was drafted as a soldier and served in the First World War. In 1919 he had his first exhibition at the Paris Salon d'Automne .

During the Vichy regime he hid in or around Toulouse and was able to return to the capital after the liberation of Paris in 1944. From 1958 until his death in 1968 he lived in Cannes on the Côte d'Azur and mainly painted landscapes, while before that he had painted still lifes, nudes, portraits and self-portraits.

His pictures are now in the Art Museum of Tel Aviv University , where a grand piano has been named after him since 2004 and financed by a family foundation named after him. Further works can be found in the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme in Paris, individual paintings in Granville , Céret , Marseille and Troyes .

In recent years, between around 5,000 (still lifes) and up to 46,000 US dollars (self-portraits) have been paid for his pictures on the art market.

literature

Commons : Michel Kikoïne  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Ariel Kyrou et al. a .: Kikoïne , Éditions de l'Albaron, Thonon-les-Bains 1992, ISBN 2908528435 (French)
  • Exhibition catalog Kikoïne, Yankel, Chana Orloff , Musée Bourdelle, Paris (exhibition June 2 to October 2, 1988), ISBN 2-901784-12-7 (French)
  • Jean Cassou, Kikoïne, Lausanne, 1973
  • Edouard Roditi, Jean Cassou, Mendel Mann : Kikoïne. Témoignages de diverses personnes , Piazza, Paris 1975

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ page of the art museum (engl.)
  2. ↑ top of a guide on Jewish Art in Paris on a commercial site about Paris (Engl.) ( Memento of the original dated January 3, 2011 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.paris.org
  3. ↑ Data from the Joconde Base , accessed on April 14, 2012
  4. ↑ Page of a large auction house
  5. ↑ Page of another large auction house
personal data
SURNAME Kikoïne, Michel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кікоін, Міхаіл; Кико́ин, Михаил; Kikóin, Michail
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian-Russian-French painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Rechyza
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1968
Place of death Cannes