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Alexis Gritchenko Pencil Drawing #2A Portugal, 1926 browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Drawings: Pre 1980: item # 715020 Please refer to our stock # 7369 when inquiring.
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| Oleksa Hryshchenko (Alexis Gritchenko 1883-1977) was born, in Krolevets in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine. During a brief stay in Paris in 1911, where he met Alexander Archipenko, Andre Lothe and Henri LeFauconnier, he became interested in Cubism After the 1917 Russian revolution, Gritchenko taught at the State Art Studios in Moscow but fled Russia in 1919 to settle in Istanbul, where he lived from 1919 to 1921. During the 1920s, Gritchenko's works were exhibited in the galleries of leading Parisian art dealers and collectors with international connections, among them: Paul Guillaume, Ziegfried Bing, Katia Granoff and Eugene Druet, as well as at the Galerie de L'Elysee and in exhibitions at the Salon des Tuilleries and Salon d'Automne, of which he was a member from 1930. After Gritchenko's exhibition at the Bing Gallery in 1926, Parisian art critic Louis Vauxcelles wrote that "the young Ukrainian colorist conquered Paris." Gritchenko met Dr. Albert Barnes, the famous Merion, Pennsylvania art collector, in 1923, when Barnes bought 17 of his works. Later his art would be part of one of Barnes's exhibits included with other artists such as Matisse, Chirico, Modigliani, and Picasso. After World War II he exhibited at numerous New York City Galleries. Gritchenko's works are found in many museums as well as in private collections, with more than 300 works in North American collections. Gritchenko enjoyed a long and distinguished career spanning more than 60 years. The artist's travels deeply influenced and to a great degree affected the style of his work. Initially an enthusiast of cubist painting, with its characteristically geometric forms and initially limited color palette, he changed his style to a vibrant expressionism, in which reality or nature is transformed to communicate an inner vision. | ||
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