Artist : Sacha CHIMKEVITCH (1920-2006)
Title : Composition
Medium : Lithograph on classic paper
Type of work : Original lithograph by the artist signed and annotated "friendship to..." EE. Lithographs annotated EA, EE or HC are additional lithographs intended for the artist, friends, master printer or collaborators thereof.
Dimensions : 69 cm x 53 cm
Condition : Good
Provenance : Grapholit workshop of the master printer Claude Jobin. Certified origin, the invoice engage the gallery's responsibility for the authenticity of the work.
Artist's biography : Chimkevitch Sacha was born in Paris on August 17, 1920. Sacha is a French painter of Polish origin. As a teenager he entered an architecture school. In 1937, he discovered jazz. He frequents the swing club where he meets: Alix Combelle, the Salvador brothers or Stéphane Grappelli. In 1939, during the war, he was called to serve his country. On his return from the war, on the advice of a friend, Lucien Fontanarosa, he entered the School of Fine Arts. For two years, he learned the basics of drawing. He also attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière to learn nude drawing. He then devoted himself between 1948 and 1951 with Pierre Merlin to engraving in the studio of Edouard Goerg. Subsequently, Sacha Chimkevitch will learn gouache and watercolor on his own. He exhibited his works very regularly from 1951 in public places, museums, galleries and jazz clubs. It is also requested abroad: in the United States, in Scotland or in Germany. This artist is considered the most authentic painter in the field of jazz. He is asked to produce album covers and posters. This imaginative painter enjoys the land of jazz. However, he likes to approach other themes: women and the sea in particular. Disappeared in April 2006, he donated his studio collection, comprising several thousand works, to the Paul-Dubois-Alfred Boucher museum in Nogent-sur-Seine, which presents a selection of these works in its rooms.
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