|
LOT 63:
Abraham Mintchine (Ukraine / France, 1898-1931) - Self Portrait (?), Pencil on ...
more...
|
|
|
Sold for: $240
Start price:
$
150
Estimated price :
$500 - $1,000
Buyer's Premium: 18%
VAT: 17% On commission only
|
Abraham Mintchine (Ukraine / France, 1898-1931) - Self Portrait (?), Pencil on Paper.
Signed.
44x27cm.
Abraham Mintchine was a Ukrainian painter.
He was born in Kiev. At 13, Mintchine was apprenticed to a goldsmith in Kiev. He began painting from the age of 16. In 1923, he left Russia for Berlin where he designed sets and costumes for the Jewish theater. At the time of his first exhibition in Berlin he displayed some works that critics defined as of a style close to Cubism. He arrived in Paris around 1925. In extreme poverty, married with a child, he was observed by the art dealer Rene Gimpel, who wrote in his journal "I have bought about 35 of his canvasses, some are quite uneven, but that in itself is some proof of talent ...he barely managed to scrape a 100 sous to live on; he wouldn't eat, and, dying of hunger would say to his wife: Eat, Mintchine isn't hungry. Now, (in 1929), that he's achieved a measure of comfort and his health has deteriorated, he continues to deprive himself for his wife saying: Mintchine doesn't need anything.
He is considered one of the major artists of the Jewish School of Paris. He died in 1931 in La Garde.
Source: Wikipedia.
