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GOUACHE 48CMX48CM dated 1957. titled Americans in Paris
Louis Armand Sinko was born in Grasse in 1934 to a Hungarian father and an Italian mother. He trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nice from 1948 to 1952, in the studio of Louis Dussourd, then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was admitted in 1953 and was a pupil of Maurice Brianchon.
Prix de Rome in 1955, with Decoration for a wedding hall, he was a resident of the Villa Medici from 1956 to 1959
A figurative painter, Sinko has been called a "cruel and refined Post-Impressionist" and "heir to Expressionism". His painting is very colorful.
Galerie Charpentier (1955; 1962), at the Schneider Gallery in Rome (1971), at the Maurice Garnier Gallery in Paris (1972), as well as in the United States (1958; 1960; 1990).
Work at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
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