Alexis Gritchenko, LANDSCAPE FROM SOUTH FRANCE

50.0 x 64.8cm - oil, plywood signed p.d.: Gritchenko

On the reverse l.g. two stickers (print, ink, red crayon): Provence No 13[...] | ALEXIS | GRITCHENKO | 8 x [...]; below: GALERIE VICTOR HUGO | 27, Boulevard Victor Hugo NICE | N. 89 5P | PROVENCE | GRITCHENKO.

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Alexis Gritchenko (Königsberg, Ukraine 1883 - Vence 1977) was a painter and art theorist. He studied at St. Volodymyr's University in Kiev (1906-08) and graduated from Moscow University (1912). Moscow University (1912). He received his artistic education at private schools and painting studios of S. Sviatoslavsky (Kiev, 1905-06) and K. Jun (Moscow, 1909-10). He became associated with the modern art movement. He made artistic trips to France (1911, where he became interested in Cubism), Italy (1913-14). He especially appreciated the work of P. Cézanne, from whom he adopted the art of structuring forms, spots, color and methods of constructing the plane. In 1921, Gritchenko emigrated to Paris, tying his work to the artistic life of the French capital, where he exhibited his works in its leading galleries, and was a regular participant in the "Autumn Salons".

Under the influence of the Paris School, Gritchenko's creative concept changed, transforming into a kind of French colorism, related to expressionism. He painted with confident pastel strokes, combining dynamic planes with planes where the paint surface is smoothed. He used color in light of modernist principles of "color dynamism," combining it with Parisian color.

In the postwar years, Gritchenko participated in many Ukrainian exhibitions organized by the United Ukrainian Artists in America. His works are in the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Royal Museums in Copenhagen and Brussels, the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, the Montreal Museum, and the National Museum in Lviv.