Georges Artemoff (1892-1965), Georgij K. Artemov, Maternity, Scraping Enhanced With Oil, Russian

Georges Artemoff 1892-1965, Russian, Maternity, mother and child; scraping on cardboard enhanced with oil, scraping is a particular technique, we draw by removing a layer of paint with a knife, or with a cardboard dedicated to this technique, it is an original drawing not a multiple, it is a unique, original work signed upper left, size 65cm by 49cm with the frame and 48cm by 30cm without. The frame is damaged, it should be changed, we see many reflections in the photos, it is due to the glass which is on the frame, it can be removed for transport. This work will be sold with invoice and certificate of authenticityGeorges Calistratovitch Artemoff, born February 17, 1892 in Ourioupinsk in Russia and died in Revel on July 9, 1965, is a French painter and sculptor of Russian origin. Georges Artemoff studied in Rostov then in Moscow (1906-1912) and in 1913 obtained a scholarship to go to Paris. He was welcomed there by Ossip Zadkine and then frequented Picasso, Soutine, Juan Gris and Modigliani. Seriously injured during the First World War, he returned to Russia in 1917 and, after the failure of the counter-Revolution, returned to Paris (1922) . Until 1939, he produced a whole series of sets (films, set of the Caveau Caucasien), paintings inspired by stays in Corsica and sculptures on panels or in the round very marked by the Art Deco style. In 1928 , The Wild Boar Hunt won the gold medal at the Salon des Artistes Decorateurs. In 1938, he lost his wife and had to hide during the Second World War. He then took refuge in the Tarn, in Sorèze then Revel where he would end his life. His work evolves, from art deco to fauvist, he is influenced by cubism, and becomes expressionist at the end of his life.