LEONID
FRECHKOP 1897-1982 original signed oil painting female portrait 1947
Sought after
European Artist with auction sales to 15,000 Euro
Beautiful female
portrait signed and dated 1947, perhaps the artist’s daughter or another family
member.
ARTIST
BIOGRAPHY
Considered
primarily a Belgian artist, Frechkop was influenced by the ideals of Nouvelle
Objectivité and Néo Réalisme, and by the Italian Renaissance and the painter
Hans Holbein.
Leonid
Frechkop was born in Moscow where he studied painting at the Academy of Fine
Art under C. Korovine, A. Arkhipov and N. Kassatkine until 1920. In 1922 the
artist received the Prix de Rome. Frechkop moved to Paris in the early 1920s
and later settled in Brussels where many institutions have collected his work
such as the Cabinet des Estampes. Also The Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre
Georges Pompidou and museums in Dinant and Ixelles have collected Frechkop’s
work.
The artist
is listed in many major publications of French and Belgian artists such as
Benezit, Arto, Le Dictionnaire des Peintures Belges and Piron. Several
significant oil paintings of female nudes by Frechkop have sold successfully at
Christie’s Amsterdam. In 1983 and 1987 the Galerie L’Oeil in Brussels exhibited
a small catalogue of the Frechkop’s work.
ITEM
DESCRIPTION
Girl in a
blue dress. Immaculately detailed portrait oil painting on canvas, signed by
the artist and dated 1947. There is a similar example of the artist’s wife
online, and this subject could be the artist’s daughter or another family member.
The painting is framed with a border on its face to compliment the subject.
The painting
is on canvas wooden stretcher (and with the frame removed) measures approximately
650mm x 503mm. The stylish modern frame measures approximately 681mm x 531mm.
Belgium provenance.
EXTRA
INFORMATION
For examples,
please add the following to an internet search:
Christies .com/en/lot/lot-l-onid-frechkop-belgian-1897-1982-5183216/
Léonid Frechkop (BELGIAN, 1897-1982) Three nudes in an interior Price realised EUR
15,000
onlineonly.christies
.com/s/russian-art/leonide-frechkop-1897-1982-183/91410 LÉONIDE FRECHKOP
(1897-1982) Portrait of the artist's wife, Joséphine Evrard Price Realised GBP
10,625
Christies .com/en/lot/lot-5159012
Léonid Frechkop (1897-1982) Portrait of the artist's wife Price realised GBP
5,250
Bonhams .com/auction/28028/lot/40/leonid-frechkop-belgian-1897-1982-tugs-in-a-port/
LOT 40 AR Léonid Frechkop (Belgian, 1897-1982) Tugs in a port L'ECOLE DE PARIS
A MODERNIST DIASPORA 28 June 2022, 14:00 BST London, New Bond Street £3,000 -
£4,000
Bonhams .com/auctions/11635/lot/160/?category=list
Leonid Frechkop (Belgian, 1897-1982) Chrysanthemums and autumn foliage 66 x
92cm (26 x 36in) Sold for £ 432 (US$ 457) inc. premium
Artnet .com/artists/l%C3%A9onid-frechkop/
OTHER
Please see
the photographs which form part of the description. Item sold as seen, returns
permitted within 14 days, purchaser pays for return insured to the value of the
purchase.
LEONID
FRECHKOP 1897-1982