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Michel Kikoïne (Belarusian: Міхаіл Кікоін; Russian: Михаил Кико́ин, Michail Kikóin; 31 May 1892 – 4 November 1968) was a Lithuanian Jewish[1]-French painter.

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Michel Kikoïne
Born	(1892-05-31)31 May 1892 Rechytsa, Russian Empire
Died	4 November 1968(1968-11-04) (aged 76) Cannes, France
Nationality	French

Life

Kikoine was born in Rechytsa, present-day Belarus. The son of a Jewish banker in the small southeastern town of Gomel, he was barely into his teens when he began studying at "Kruger's School of Drawing" in Minsk. There he met Chaïm Soutine, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. At age 16, he and Soutine were studying at the Vilnius Academy of Art and in 1911 he moved to join the growing artistic community gathering in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France. This artistic community included his friend Soutine as well as fellow Belarus painter, Pinchus Kremegne who also had studied at the Fine Arts School in Vilnia.

For a time, the young artist lived at La Ruche while studying at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1914, he married a young lady from Vilnia with whom he had a daughter and a son. Their son, Jacques Yankel, born in France in 1920, also became a painter. The same year as his marriage, Kikoine volunteered to fight in the French army, serving until the end of World War I.

With the outbreak of World War II and the subsequent occupation of France by the Germans, Kikoine and his Jewish family faced deportation to the Nazi death camps. Until the end of the War they stayed near Toulouse. After the Allied liberation of France, he moved back to Paris where his paintings were primarily nudes, autoportraits, and portraits. In 1958, he moved to Cannes on the Mediterranean coast where he returned to landscape painting until his death on 4 November 1968.

Career

Kikoine had his first exhibition in Paris in 1919 after which he exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne. His work was successful enough to provide a reasonable lifestyle for him and his family allowing them to spend summers painting landscapes in the south of France, the most notable of which is his "Paysage Cezannien," inspired by Paul Cézanne. He died in Cannes, France.

Influence

In 2004, at the university in Tel Aviv, Israel, a new wing in the Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery was dedicated to the memory of Kikoine.

References

External links

• An artwork by Michel Kikoine at the Ben Uri site

На других языках

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[de] Michel Kikoïne

Michel Kikoïne (belarussisch Міхаіл Кікоін russisch Михаил Кико́ин .mw-parser-output .Latn{font-family:"Akzidenz Grotesk","Arial","Avant Garde Gothic","Calibri","Futura","Geneva","Gill Sans","Helvetica","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande","Stone Sans","Tahoma","Trebuchet","Univers","Verdana"}Michail Kikóin; * 31. Mai 1892 in Retschyza, heute Belarus; † 4. November 1968 in Cannes) war ein belarussisch-französischer Maler der École de Paris der 1920er Jahre.

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- [en] Michel Kikoine

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[es] Michel Kikoïne

Michel Kikoïne (Mijaíl Péretsovich Kikoin, Михаил Перецович Кикоин) (Réchytsa, Bielorrusia, 31 de mayo de 1892 - Cannes, 4 de noviembre de 1968) fue un pintor francés de origen ruso y ascendencia judía. De estilo expresionista, perteneció a la llamada Escuela de París.[1]

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[fr] Michel Kikoine

Mikhaïl Kikoïne, dit Michel Kikoïne, né le 31 mai 1892 à Gomel (alors Empire russe), et mort le 4 novembre 1968 à Cannes, est un peintre français d'origine russe, membre de l'École de Paris.

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[it] Michel Kikoine

Michel Kikoine (Rechytsa, 31 maggio 1892 – Cannes, 4 novembre 1968) è stato un pittore francese, originario della Bielorussia.

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[ru] Кикоин, Мишель

Мишель Кикоин (фр. Michel Kikoïne, при рождении Михель Перец-Вольфович Кикоин; 31 мая 1892, Гомель — 4 ноября 1968, Париж) — французский художник «Парижской школы».

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