MICHEL KIKOÏNE | FLEURS ET NATURE MORTE A LA MANDOLINE

Oscar Ghez, Geneva

Galerie Barreiro, Paris

Redfern Gallery, London

Sale: Sotheby's Tel Aviv, May 31, 1990, lot 26

Purchased from the above by the present owner

Jean Cassou, Kikoïne, Laussane, 1973, p. 235, no. 25, illustrated

Beginning in 1912, Kikoïne settled for a time in La Ruche, an artists’ residence located in Montparnasse. He studied in the École des Beaux-Arts and the Cormon Atelier, living and working alongside other École de Paris artists such as Modigliani, Zadkine, Lipchitz and others. This important early work shows the strong influence of the Cubism of Picasso and Braque, who dominated the Paris art scene at the time.