€410
Star Lot: An enchanting original oil on board painting by the famous artist Pinchus Kremegne (1890-1981). The work features a vibrant and heavily textured landscape scene of a French lavender field lit by the setting sun rendered in Kremegne's signature impasto strokes and thick colour. Signed bottom right and housed in a gilt frame. Kremegne work is highly collectable and sells fantastically at auction, ranging in the mid to high thousands. A sale at Christies fetched £8,750.
Mm: 40 x 35 cm in frame.
Pinchus Kremegne was a native of Zhaludak near Lida, and was a friend of both Chaim Soutine and Michel Kikoine. He studied sculpture at the Vilnius Academy of Art. His Jewish heritage made him a target of pogram and fled to Paris in 1912. In Paris, Kremegne joined the group of painters of Montparnasse and soon became one of the respected residents of La Ruche. In 1915, he gave up sculpture in order to dedicate himself to painting. Underestimated as an artist today, he is overshadowed by Soutine and Chagall. He was remembered with a posthumous one-man show in the Quartier Les Halles in Paris in the 1990s. A more structured vision of nature than Soutine's, Kremegne's last paintings prefigure the work of painters such as Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach in England.
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