The Woman With The Hat By Robert Pikelny Polish Painter

The woman in the hat by Robert PIKELNY oil on canvas signed top right format with frame 58cm x 45cm ... Robert Pikelny (or Piekielny) was born in Lodz (Poland) on February 9, 1904 and he died in the 18th arrondissement of Paris on July 23, 1986. He was a painter of the School of Paris. . Robert Pikelny began his artistic apprenticeship in Moscow where his parents came to settle in 1908. He discovered painting through the painters of the Tretiakoff gallery, an important gallery in Moscow which exhibited Ilia Repin, Vassili Ivanovitch Sourikoff and Valentin Alexandrovitch Seroff whose reproductions adorn his childhood bedroom. Later, he would be more attracted by the painters of the Russian movement, “The Jack of Diamonds”, a group influenced by the Fauves and the Cubists and which included Ilja Machkoff, the first master of Pikelny and Chevchenko, a painter influenced by Cézanne and attracted by Paris . In 1922, Pikelny traveled to Vienna and Berlin, met Jean Pougny who became his friend. In 1923, Pikelny arrived in Paris