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Large lithograph by ANDRÉ LANSKOY ( 1902-1976) signed and numbered XXV/L, abstract composition on green background. Circa 1975
Dimensions: 95 cm x 65.5 cm
André Lanskoy, born March 5, 1903 in Moscow and died August 22, 1976 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, was a Franco-Russian painter and lithographer of the New School of Paris.
Lanskoy arrived in Paris in 1921. He took advice from Soudeïkhine, who was in Paris from 1920 to 1922. He paints from life and meets Mikhail Larionov.
First exhibition at Galerie La Licorne in 1923, with Russian artists including Chaïm Soutine.
1945-46: takes part in the exhibition Vingt ans chez Jeanne Bucher with Chagall, Picasso, Braque, Léger, Max Ernst, Miró, Kandinsky, Staël, etc.
November 1950: takes part in the Young painters USA and France exhibition organized by Leo Castelli, with Dubuffet, Staël, Soulages, Rothko, Pollock, etc.
1960: the Guggenheim Museum in New York buys an oil painting, Lecture à voix basse (1957).
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Museums : Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre G. Pompidou and Art moderne Ville, Colmar, Grenoble, Le Havre, Lille, Maubeuge, Mulhouse, Saint-Étienne, Tourcoing, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, New York, Toledo.
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