Figures By Gregoire Michonze 1902 - 1982

Description
Signed and dated 1973 (lower right), Givon Gallery label (on the reverse)

Technique
Pen and Oil on Paper

Date Created
1973

Dimensions
25 x 35 cm

Provenance
Estate of Sami Yochananof

Condition
Good

Biography
Michonze was one of the prominent members of humanistic branch of the 'Ecole de Paris' Movement, who believed that the figure should be the major subject of art and opposed the abstract movements. He was born in Romania in 1902. He moved to Paris in 1922. In 1924 he moved in the circles of the surrealist poets and painters but never adopted their artistic views. His paintings are riddles, in his imagination he painted the figures of folk tails and parables, but often their real meaning remains uncertain to the viewer. He died in Paris in 1982.(The Jewish Art, Cecil Roth (Ed.), Masada Tel-Aviv, p.600).