After Moïse Kisling

AFTER MOÏSE KISLING (Krakow, 1891- France, 1953).
"White lilies".
Gliclée- paper arches France. Copy 136/150.
Presents stamp of the atelier Kisling with pencil signature of Jean Kisling, son of the artist and author of the catalogue raisonné.
Signed in plate and justified in pencil.
Measurements: 70 x 54,5 cm.
This gliclée reproduces a famous work by Moïse Kisling, a French painter of Polish origin. He was born in Krakow, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a Jewish family, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1910, at the age of nineteen, he moved to Paris. Settled in Montmartre, he became part of the Parisian artistic avant-garde, known as the School of Paris, and established close professional relationships with artists such as Amedeo Modigliani and Jules Pascin, among others. His work achieved notoriety especially for the representation of the female body, making throughout his career numerous nudes and portraits.
In 1924 he obtained French nationality, after having served in the Foreign Legion during the First World War, where he was wounded in combat. In 1940, despite being 49 years old, he rejoined the army for the Second World War. After the French capitulation and in view of the threat to the Jewish population in the occupied territories, he emigrated to the United States. There he exhibited his works in New York and Washington, and later settled in Southern California. With the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the war, Kisling returned to France, where he continued to paint until his death in 1953, after a brief illness.
His artistic legacy is spread throughout museums around the world, including the Harvard Art Museums, the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Musée du Petit Palais in Geneva holds an important collection of his paintings.