Michel Kikoine

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Life

Kikoine was born in Rechytsa, the state of Belarus. He was barely into his teens when he began studying at "Kruger's School of Drawing" in Minsk. He met Cham Soutine, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. He and Soutine were studying at the Vilnius Academy of Art, but in 1911 he joined the growing artistic community gathering in Paris's Montparnasse Quarter. Soutine and other Belarus painter Pinchus Kremegne, who had also studied at the Fine Arts School in Vilnia, were among the artistic students in this group.

While attending the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts for a time, the young artist lived in La Ruche. He married a young lady from Vilnia in 1914, with whom he had a daughter and a son. Jacques Yankel, their son, who was born in France in 1920, later became a painter. Kikoine volunteered to fight in the French army in the same year as his marriage, serving until the end of World War I.

With the outbreak of World War II and the subsequent German invasion of France, Kikoine and his Jewish family were deported to the Nazi death camps. They lived near Toulouse until the war's end. He returned to Paris after the French revolution, where mainly nudes, autoportraits, and portraits were on display. In 1958, he moved to Cannes, where he returned to landscape painting before his death on November 4th, 1968.

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Career

After which he appeared regularly at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, Kikoine had his first exhibition in 1919. His work was good enough to afford him and his family a decent life in the south of France, the most notable of which is Paul Cézanne's "Paysage Cezannien" inspired by him. He died in Cannes, France.

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