Madeleine Luka - Naive Painting Chess Game Between Kennedy Khrushchev Oil Signed And Dated

Original oil on wooden panel 75 cm x 69 cm, signed lower right Madeleine Luka, dated above 1961 representing the "Two Ks": Kennedy and Khrushchev playing a game of chess as an allegory of the Cold War of the time.

Painting in good condition but the panel is warped.
Interesting composition, period testimony to the tension between the USA and the Soviet Union.
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Madeleine Luka (1894-1989) Self-taught, classified in the Naive Art category, Madeleine Luka is a painter on canvas, illustrator and poet. Married to Robert Kula, she composed her artistic name by modifying the order of the letters. She exhibits in Paris, among others at the Jean Pascaud gallery, Marseille, London, Rabat, San Francisco, Tokyo, New York in the Naive Art category. Children, young girls or animals constitute his universe, his characters are full of grace and innocence. Madeleine Luka mainly paints the members of her family circle or her garden, but she creates few portraits of men apart from her husband Robert Kula, Sainte-Rose Suquet, Francis Jammes, Abbé Breuil. Francis Jammes ordered 105 illustrations from him for his novel entitled The Rustic Poet, printed in 220 copies. The correspondence exchanged between 1930 and 1934 between Francis Jammes and Madeleine Luka is revealed in Bulletins Nos. 5 and 6 of the Francis James Association, copy no. 119 of which is dedicated to composers, including Rolande Plantard10, friend of Madeleine Luka. She participated in group exhibitions organized by the Society of Women Artists Modernes (FAM), created in 1931 by Marie-Anne Camax-Zoegger. She is present on the list of artists of the 1935 exhibition at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune.