Personne à la guitare
Louis Marcoussis (Warschau 1878 - Cusset 1941)
Lot-No. 511
Mixed media/cardboard, 35 x 22 cm, up. le. sign. a. dat. Marcoussis 29, on the reverse sign. again, titled on label of Galerie Jean de Ruaz, Paris as well as collector's stamp Eric Franck (Lugt 4205). - French painter of Polish origin. M. studied since 1901 under J. Stanislawski at the Warsaw academy. In 1903 he moved to Paris, where he continued his studies at the Académie Julian as pupil of J. Lefebvre. Since 1912 he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, since 1923 also at the Salon des Tuileries. In 1933 he travelled the USA. The invasion of the Germans in France made him move to Cusset in central France where he died shortly after. M. was a friend of many of the leading artists of this time, among them J. Gris, F. Picabia a. F. Léger. M. began as a cubist painter a. developed his style to a two-dimensional abstraction. - Mus.: London (Tate), Chicago (Art Inst.), Philadelphia, Grenoble u.a. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit.
Louis Marcoussis: Personne à la guitare
Louis Marcoussis (Warschau 1878 - Cusset 1941)
Personne à la guitare
Lot-No. 511
Mixed media/cardboard, 35 x 22 cm, up. le. sign. a. dat. Marcoussis 29, on the reverse sign. again, titled on label of Galerie Jean de Ruaz, Paris as well as collector's stamp Eric Franck (Lugt 4205). - French painter of Polish origin. M. studied since 1901 under J. Stanislawski at the Warsaw academy. In 1903 he moved to Paris, where he continued his studies at the Académie Julian as pupil of J. Lefebvre. Since 1912 he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, since 1923 also at the Salon des Tuileries. In 1933 he travelled the USA. The invasion of the Germans in France made him move to Cusset in central France where he died shortly after. M. was a friend of many of the leading artists of this time, among them J. Gris, F. Picabia a. F. Léger. M. began as a cubist painter a. developed his style to a two-dimensional abstraction. - Mus.: London (Tate), Chicago (Art Inst.), Philadelphia, Grenoble u.a. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit.