André Lanskoy (1902-1976), Composition, Gouache And Watercolor On Paper, Signed In The Center, Frame

Provenance : 2024 Collection particumière Aixoise
2016 : Vente publique Blanchet et Associés
Andrei Mikhailovich Lanskoy, eldest son of Count Mikhail Mikhailovich Lanskoy, was born in Moscow on March 31, 1902. The Lanskoy family settled in Saint Petersburg, where the father ran a bank. Andrei attended the Corps des Pages, then continued his education in a private high school. He was fascinated by color, petrushkas, clown makeup, etc. In 1917, Lanskoy was enrolled in the Petrograd Cadet School. In 1918, the Lanskoy family took refuge in kyiv, where Andrei attended Alexandra Exter's studio and executed his first works (including fantastic watercolors), none of which have been preserved. Lanskoy arrived in Paris in 1921. He took advice from Sudeïkhine, who was in Paris from 1920 to 1922. He painted from nature and met Mikhail Larionov. First exhibition at the Galerie La Licorne in 1923, in the company of Russian artists, including Chaïm Soutine. He also exhibited at the town hall of the 16th arrondissement with Larionov and Natalia Gontcharova. Participated for the first time in the Salon d'Automne. The collectors Zborowsky and Snegaroff began to buy his paintings. In 1924, he participated in the Tcherez group, exhibited at the Galerie Carmine and sent 2 paintings to the Salon d'Automne. He signed a 2-year contract with the Galerie Bing. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne from 1924. In December 1925, he exhibited 35 paintings, including the Portrait of Countess Lanskoy at the Galerie Bing. 1930-1936: Lanskoy exhibited regularly at the Russian Art Exhibition in the company of Chagall, Larionov, Pougni, etc. His work was supported by Roger Dutilleuil and his nephew Jean Masurel. In 1938, he produced a series of figurative, semi-figurative or abstract gouaches. In February 1942, he exhibited his abstract paintings at the Berri-Raspail gallery. From May 4 to 20, 1944, he exhibited Gouaches and paintings by André Lanskoy at the Jeanne Bucher gallery; on this occasion, Nicolas de Staël discovered his work and asked to meet him; they became friends. 1945-46: he participated in the exhibition Twenty Years at Jeanne Bucher with Chagall, Picasso, Braque, Léger, Max Ernst, Miró, Kandinsky, Staël, etc. In 1949, the State purchased an oil painting by Lanskoy, Multitude. In 1950, he began to take an interest in tapestry and met Maurice Chassagne. 1951: solo exhibition Works from 1925 to 1935 at the Jacques Dubourg Gallery 1953: Lanskoy Exhibition, Paintings from 1925 to 1953, Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery, London, then at the Younger European Painters exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 1956, the National Museum of Modern Art purchased the Large Black and White Camaïeu Drawing. 1957: Lanskoy, Early and Recent Paintings, Fine Arts Associates, New York. 1959: he began to produce collages for the Journal d'un fou and gouaches for Genesis. Lanskoy exhibition at the Albert Loeb Gallery in New York. He would exhibit again at this gallery in 1960 and 1962. 1960: the Guggenheim Museum in New York purchased an oil, Lecture à voix basse (1957). 1961: group exhibition Russian painters of the Paris School, at the Maison de la Pensée française, with Chagall, Sonia Delaunay, Gontcharova, Kandinsky, Larionov, Poliakoff, Pougny, Soutine, Staël and Zadkine. In 1967, the State bought an oil painting from him, Une autre source, and the Mobilier national bought a tapestry, Mouvement détourné. 1970: Lanskoy exhibited in Mulhouse Le Journal d'un fou, La Genèse, Cortège et Dédale. Carlo Signorini collaborated with Lanskoy on around fifty mosaics made in Ravenna from 1973 to 1976. On the night of 21 to 22 August 1976, André Lanskoy died in his studio on Boulevard Pereire. 2006: André Lanskoy 1902-1976, for the thirtieth anniversary of his death, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow and Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg.