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Lot 26
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Pinchus Krémègne

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Pinchus Krémègne
  • Paysage du Midi
  • signed Kremegne (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 18 1/8 by 25 3/8 in.
  • 46 by 64.5 cm.
  • Painted circa 1925.

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby's, Tel Aviv, May 30, 1989, lot 89
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Condition

Overall in good condition. Colors are fresh. This work is relined. There is scattered craquelure in the upper third of the work. No retouching is apparent when viewed under ultra violet light.
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Catalogue Note

Krémègne emigrated to Paris from Lithuania in 1912. In Paris, he joined his friends and fellow students from the Vilna Academy of Fine Arts Chaïm Soutine and Michel Kikoïne. His first buyers were Leopold Zborowski, an influential art dealer who represented Modigliani, Chagall, and Derain among others; Paul Guillaume, another prestigious dealer; Gustave Coquiot, a collector of Maurice Utrillo and Auguste Rodin; and Père Cheron. In the 1920s he often painted in Cagnes, on the island of Corsica and in the Pyrénées.