Michel ADLEN

LANDSCAPE WITH BUILDINGS Oil, canvas; 33 x 55 cm Signed l.d.: adlen Asking price 3000

Estimate 3700 - 3800

Michel ADLEN

1898 Saki -1980 Paris

Painter and printmaker from the École de Paris milieu. From 1918 to 1920 he was in Vienna, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, collaborated with the magazine "Die Muskete" and first showed his works at an art exhibition. In 1923 he visited Berlin and participated in an exhibition of prints. Since 1923 he lived permanently in Paris. He participated in the Paris Salons , also took part in other exhibitions. He belonged to various art groups (L'Araigne, La Satire, Les Imagiers), was active in the Société des Artistes Russes, and was a co-founder of the Association des Artistes Peintrers et Sculpteurs Juifs en France. He painted numerous landscapes, still lifes, nudes, figural compositions, including clowns and circus scenes. At different periods of his career, the artist's paintings show both the influence of Cubism and Fauvism, as well as his fascination with the art of J.B.C. Corot, C. Pissar and also P. Cezanne.