Serge Charchoune, Oil on Canvas, ‘Symphony’, 1959
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France, 1959
Serge Charchoune (1888-1975) - Russian-French painter, illustrator and writer
Signed and dated lower right ‘Charchoune 12 VI 59’
Dimensions: 40.3 x 60.8 cm
Good condition
With a photo-certificate by Pierre Guénégan dating 24 June 2010, no. 210/2010
The work will be included in the forthcoming catalog raisonné under number 183
Serge Charchoune was a representative of many modern art movements, he was inspired by the Dadaists as well as Cubism and Informalism. In the 1950s he also tried to implement musical themes into painting, works from this period fetch up to €56,500 at international auctions
The work presented here, executed in oil on canvas, was created by the Russian-French artist Serge Charchoune in 1959. In the 1940s and 50s he starts to implement literary and musical themes that are based on the rhythm of lines and color field modulations, as it illustrates our painting which is entitled ‘Symphony’.
The painting is signed and dated lower right ‘Charchoune 12 VI 59’. It is in good condition. In the upper left little retouching visible under UV, otherwise of very good condition. The image measures 40.3 x 60.8 cm, the framed dimensions are 43 x 63 cm.
With a photo-certificate by Pierre Guénégan dating 24 June 2010, no. 210/2010. The work will be included in the forthcoming catalog raisonné under number 183.
Serge Charchoune (1888-1975)
Serge Charchoune was born in 1888 in Buguruslan (Orenburg). He studied from 1908-10 with Ilya Ivanovich Maškov, Konstantin Fedorovi? Yuon and Ivan Osipovic Dudin in Moscow. While in military service, he came to Paris in 1912, where he studied at the Academie Russe Libre and the Academie La Palette under Henri Le Fauconnier, Jean Metzinger and André Dunoyer de Segonzac. This was followed by exhibitions at the Salon des Indépendants in 1913-14. After a short stay in Barcelona, he returned to Paris. In 1922-23 he visited Berlin, where he exhibited at Herwarth Walden's gallery ‘Der Sturm’. His work is both abstract and representational.
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