Abstract composition, lithograph on Arches paper ca. 1965 – framed, museumglass 1960 - 1969

André Lanskoy

LithographyPrint
91 ⨯ 74 ⨯ 1 cm
ConditionVery good
€ 1.300

Van Kerkhoff Art

• About the artwork
  Lithograph print by French / Russian artist André Lanskoy. Printed circa 1965 in an edition of 50.
  
  Signed and numbered in Roman numbers(XLVI/L) by the artist in pencil.
  
  Professionally framed. Brushed aluminium frame, passe-partout, museumglass.
  
  About André Lanskoy
  André Michailovitch Lanskoy (1902 Moscow, Russia – 1976 Paris, France) was a French-Russian artist and one of the foremost abstract painters of the Ecole de Paris.
  
  Born in Tsaristic Russia in a noble family Lanskoy studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of St.Petersburg. After the victory of the Red army in the Russian Revolution and the Civil War that followed, he went into exile to Paris in 1921.
  
  His work made a strong impact right from the start and in 1924 he was invited to exhibit with Delaunay, Survage and Zadkine, at Galerie Carmine. Until 1937 his work consisted of bold figurative compositions, but after this date he started to explore abstraction. His first fully abstract work Lanskoy painted in 1940.
  
  From the 1950’s onward he enjoyed a high international status as painter of abstract works. He was regarded as one of the leading post-war painters along with Soulages, Poliakoff and Dubuffet.
  
  Many international musea represent Lankoy’s work, among many others: Guggenheim, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; MoMa, New York.
  
  Signed
  Signed and numbered by the artist in pencil.
  
  Condition
  Good condition, full margins, professionally framed, museumglass.
  
  Dimensions
  H. 91.4 cm
  W. 74.2 cm
  D. 1.9 cm
  
  Image
  H. 65 cm
  W. 50 cm
  
• About the artist

  31 March 1902 – 24 August 1976.
  Born in Moscow.
  
  Lanskoy was a Russian painter and printmaker who worked in France. He is associated with the School of Paris and Tachisme, an abstract painting movement that began during the 1940s.
  After 1905, the family moved to St. Petersburg. In 1918, he moved to Kiev where he painted his first paintings. During the Russian Civil War he fought in the Tsarist White Army. After an injury he moved to Constantinople and in 1921, he went to Paris. Recalling his arrival in the French capital, Lanskoy said: “Literally in the first night I started to paint and I haven’t stopped since.” In Paris, he met Serge Poliakoff and later Nicolas de Staël.
  Lanskoy spent a lot of time at museums and was influenced by James Ensor’s and Vincent van Gogh’s use of color. In 1923, he participated in his first group exhibitions of Russian painters at the La Licorne Gallery in Paris. Wilhelm Uhde discovered Lanskoy’s paintings at the Salon d’Automne in 1924 and became a collector of his works in the years that followed. In 1925, Lanskoy had a solo exhibition and his works were acquired by museums and important private collectors. After 1937, his paintings began a transition towards abstraction and he studied both Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky.
  After 1942, he painted only abstract works. The interaction of form and color became the major theme running through his oeuvre: “Even though every brushstroke represents for itself a transformed reality, it receives its true meaning in the context of surrounding shades of color.” In 1944, Lanskoy exhibited at the Jeanne Bucher Gallery in Paris where he met Nicolas de Staël. In 1948, he showed at the Louis Carré Gallery and in 1951 at the Galerie Jacques Dubourg. The Tooth and Sons Gallery showed his work in 1953 and The Loeb Gallery in New York City followed in 1959. In 1962, he began to work on a large project of original prints and collages to accompany Nikolai Gogol’s novel Diary of a Madman. He worked for fourteen years until his death on this project resulting in 150 collages and 80 lithographs. In 1966 he had an exhibition at the Museé Galliéra, Paris. The Neue Galerie in Zürich held an exhibition in 1969. Lanskoy died on 24 August 1976 in Paris. The Aras Gallery collected the extensive Diary of a Madman series of prints and staged a major posthumous exhibition in 1989.

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