The Boats Of Gabriel Zendel

Condition: Very good condition Technique: Mixed technique on panel Other: Signed lower right and dated 59 Height: 76 cm Width: 56 cm Dimensions with frame: 85/67 cm BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST: 1906 - 1994 Painter Gabriel Zendel is of Polish descent through her mother, Regina Jaskierowitz. His father hired him at the age of fourteen as an assistant in his bookshop, avenue Jean-Jaurès in Paris, where the young Zendel set up an easel in the back of the shop. His parents encouraged him to paint very early on. In 1925, Zendel entered the institute of contemporary aesthetics, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, where Paul Bornet taught. The following year, he left for Morocco to do his military service for eighteen months. Back in Paris, he resumed his lessons with Paul Bornet who taught him all the techniques of engraving on copper, on wood, as well as the printing of proofs. He studied for three years and at the same time worked in advertising to earn a living. He travels to Holland and northern Italy from where he brings back many drawings. In 1929, Zendel sold his first canvas, Paysage de Montmartre, and acquired a certain notoriety. At Jean Cassou's request, the State bought a painting from him. Zendel travels little but draws a lot around Paris, in Meudon and Chaville. The declared war, he is mobilized in a medical train. He continues to draw and sends his work for an exhibition in Amiens, but everything disappears when the city is destroyed. In December 1939, he married Agathe Schneider. Demobilized in July, he returned to Paris, was arrested but managed to escape and moved to Cannes where he painted relentlessly. At the end of the war he returned to his Paris studio. In 1947, Zendel made twenty-five drawings for Le Cirque by Léon-Paul Fargue and planned to publish a book on dance. This project will remain in draft form. In 1949, he was in America for an exhibition in the New York gallery Durand-Ruel and the collector Stephen Clark bought him a painting. Durand-Ruel will organize several exhibitions of works by Gabriel Zendel in Paris. Source: Nadine Nieszawer, Jewish Painters in Paris, Ed. Denoël, 2000. "What should speak is painting... Here I say what I have to say in the language of a painter (...) I am engaged in the pictorial adventure (this is the real commitment for a painter), because if my life had to have a meaning, I felt that it was this one and not another. And I know very deeply that, until at the end I will seek the inaccessible ideal goal.” Nobility, poetry, seriousness. I feel and I find all this in the contact and the life of objects, of simple people. And then to tell the truth, the spectator always has the leisure to add his personal dose of poetry and nobility. It is a necessary collaboration. Gabriel Zendel, interview by Pierre Descargues. Coll Artistes de ce temps, éd.PLF, Paris 1952. "Zendel fits into the contemporary current with the help of a material and an organization of the painting which are the logical outcome of the research of the "disruptors of reality "what were the cubists for the form, the fauves for the color and the unrealists of the forties to the fifties for the spirit. It is not a question of a new painting but of a development with all the consequences that entails of the new spirit which first wants harmony and secondo the plastic fact in its purest state" Jean Bouret Art, March 21, 1952. Group exhibitions Salon des Vrais Indépendants 1931 Carmine Gallery, rue de Seine 1932 or 1933 Zak Gallery , rue de l'Abbaye 1934-38 then from 45 Salon de Indépendants 1934-38 then 45 -51 Salon des Tuileries 1934-38 then from 45 Salon d'Automne 1935 then from 1945 Galerie de Paris 1936 Galerie Charpentier, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 1936 Fine Arts Gallery 1937 Lausanne 1939 Cambridge, Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest, Istanbul: “French Art” 1939 Kaganovitch Gallery 1945 Ticino Institute, rue de Tournon 1945 Berri-Raspail Gallery 1947 Nice 1948 Sweden 1951 (Goeteborg and Stockholm) Paris “Painters Witnesses of their Time” 1952 (and all subsequent exhibitions) Turin, Lyon 1952 Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, 1953, Second sacred art fair 1955 Biennial de Menton 1953 Tokyo, Japan 1954 Allard Gallery, rue des Capucines 1954-1955 Charpentier Gallery "The School of Paris" 1955 Galliéra Museum, "Views on contemporary painting" Paris 1955 Obelisk Gallery, Washington DC 1955 Lille 1955 Lara Vincy Gallery, rue de Seine, Paris 1955 Salon of water-based painting 1955 Honfleur Salon 1955 Galerie Legrip, Rouen 1958 Biennale de Trouville 1958 1962 Galerie 65, Cannes, "La Musique" 1963 Galerie Roger Dulac "Art and Medicine" 1964 Galerie Soleils 1970 Salon Comparaison Special exhibitions Galerie de Paris 1934 Galerie Gasser, Cannes 1942 Galerie de Berri, Paris 1947 Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York 1949 Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris 1950 Galerie Drouant-David, Paris 1952 and 1956 Galerie Marcel Guiot, Paris 1953 Bridel Gallery, Lausanne 1956 Groote Gallery, Montreal 1958 Carlier Gallery, Paris 1958-1960 Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal 1965 Matignon Art Gallery, Paris 1972 and 1974 Place Beauvau Art Gallery, Paris 1976 and 1980 Museums Museum of Modern Art in Paris Petit Palais Legation of France in Vienna Museums in Rennes, Nevers, Saint-Etienne, Lyon. Eugene Boudin Museum, Honfleur. Prize Prize of the Cannes Film Festival Prize of the Biennale of Menton Grand Prize of the Biennale of Trouville Grand Prize of Painters Witnesses of their Time