Georges LAPCHINE (1885-1951)

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60000 - 80000 EUR
Georges LAPCHINE (1885-1951)
After mass, beginning of spring in Russia Oil on panel signed lower right "G. Lapchine". Preserved in a very important gilded wooden frame. H_129 cm L_150 cm (at sight) Provenance: collection Armen PETROSSIAN Exhibition: probably exhibited at the 1936 Salon, Société des Artistes French, Palais des Champs-Élysées, under number 1431 and entitled "Après la messe, début du printemps en Russie". Related work: a preparatory study for our painting was sold at Ader Paris, on 04/03/2009, oil on canvas, 46 x 54.5 cm, lot n°148, sold for 26,023 euros and which had been offered by the artist to the painter Jean Erblet (O'Klein) around 1935-1936 (fig.). In the sale catalogue, the following mention was made: "This is a preparatory work for a painting presented at a World's Fair" (probably ours). History: Born in Moscow in 1885, Georges Lapchine studied from 1900 at the school Stroganov then quickly left for Paris from 1906 to 1909 where he trained with F. Cormon and J. Lermitte. Back in Moscow in 1910, he took part in the Salon des Indépendants and became the founder and permanent participant in the exhibitions of the "Free Creativity Society" from 1911 to 1917. The political events of 1917 pushed him into exile and he settled permanently in Paris in 1924. As a painter and decorator, he created sets for the Opéra-Comique, the Barcelona Opera and the Lithuanian State Theatre as well as sets for the Parisian cabarets of the Folies Bergère and the night cabaret Sésame in Monte Carlo. From 1935, he joined and exhibited in the Société des Artistes Français. His works are nowadays conserved in particular at the Trétiakov Gallery and at the National Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan at Kazan.
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