Leonid Frechkop. (moscow 1897-brussels 1982).

Painting signed lower left. Numbered on the back, on the chassis, 256. No restoration, beautiful condition.
Dimensions 50 x 50 cm. No frame.
Vieuw of the Parc de Bruxelles ( Parc Royal).
Statue of Diane (Gabriel Grupello, 1670): goddess of hunting, accompanied by a greyhound and carrying a quiver with arrows on the back.
LEONID FRECHKOP (1897-1982).
Pupil between 1916 and 1920 of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, with Constantin Korovine, Abram Arkhipov and Nikolai Kassatkin, Leonid Frechkop, leaving the USSR by the port of Riga, arrived in France in 1921, then in Belgium in 1922 to settle there definitively, starting there as painter-decorator and contributing to the realization in 1923, for the royal Theater of Antwerp, of the sets of the operas Le Coq d'or by Nicolaï Rimski-Korsakov and Eugène Oneéguine by Piotr Illitch Tchaïkovsky. He became friends with the theater decorator, Argentinian by origin, Jules Payró, with whom a whole artistic and intellectual milieu meets (one finds there the writer Paul-Aloïse De Bock and the surrealist painter Paul Delvaux). In 1935, Frechkop exhibited in Argentina and in 1936 in Venezuela. We know from his work that his vacation resorts in France lead him to Savoy, Provence or even Corsica. In 1968, his trip to Turkey essentially inspired him to follow a series of works on the theme of the Taurus Mountains. Works at the Museums of Ixelles, Dinant and at the Cabinet des Estampes in Brussels.