[XXTH ART - LITHOGRAPHY - YEARS 1960]

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Small color lithograph

"Old houses in Cassis"

1960s

Leaflet that may be part of a leaflet
(Wish card? Exhibition catalog?)
but I am not sure...

It is in all cases a real lithographic print
with pretty and very bright colors


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Jacques YANKEL
1920-2020

Jacques Yankel

Jacques Yankel, pseudonym of Jakob Kikoïne, born April 14, 1920 in Paris, died April 2, 2020 
in Aubenas (Ardèche) is a French painter, sculptor and lithographer of the second School of Paris.

He is the son of the painter Michel Kikoine (1892-1968).

Biography

While, five years after his sister Claire, he was born at the Boucicaut hospital in Paris from the marriage of Michel Kikoïne
 and Rosa Bunimovitz - badly accepting this birth, Kikoïne had, in the company of Chaïm Soutine, fled to Cagnes-sur-Mer shortly before giving birth, an abandonment lasting a year that Rosa would not forgive him despite the paternal sense very developed which will follow -, Jacques Yankel spends a JEUNE precarious childhood in the city of artists of the Hive, at 2, passage of Dantzig in the 15th arrondissement, which remained the place of residence of the Kikoïne family from 1912 to 1926 . He grew up surrounded by his family and works of art until he entered kindergarten.

In 1926, Michel Kikoïne acquired a house in Annay-sur-Serein (through which Yankel remained linked to the department of Yonne), then in 1927 the family left La Ruche to settle in Montrouge (rue de Gentilly) - "my bad company in rue de Gentilly could have made me a real villain" will evoke Yankel - before returning - "poverty caused our departure from the beautiful studio in rue de Gentilly" he will still remember - in the Montparnasse district (7, rue Brézin) in 1933.

His schooling is deplorable and he will be refused at the School of Applied Arts and the Beaux-Arts in Paris. During the Second World War, he held temporary jobs in the printing and engraving workshop. In 1941, he moved to Toulouse, in the free zone, and became an assistant geologist. He married Raymonde Jouve the same year, Michel and Rosa Kikoïne clandestinely and separately crossing the line of demarcation in order to be present. He continued his studies and brilliantly defended a diploma of higher studies in geology at the Faculty of Sciences of Toulouse. In 1946, his daughter Dinah Kikoïne was born. He occasionally participates as an amateur painter in the Chariot group with the artists Jean Hugon, Michel Goedgebuer, Bernard Pagès, Christian Schmidt, André-François Vernette and Jean Teulières.

In 1949, he was hired by the Ministry of the Colonies for the geological map of Gao-Timbuktu-Tabankort in French West Africa. From this episode, he will keep a certain taste for African art of which he will become a collector. The following year, he unexpectedly met Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre in Gao. The latter encouraged him to turn to painting.

In 1952, he returned to live in Paris, relocating to La Ruche, and made his debut as a painter at the Lara Vinci gallery, rue de Seine. In 1954, in parallel with his thesis defense in geology at the Sorbonne, he exhibited his works in Paris and Mulhouse. In 1955, he had his first successes as an artist. He won the Neumann Prize, which he shared with Reginald Pollack, the 1st prize from the Society of Art Lovers, as well as the Fénéon Prize, resituating himself thus: "in Paris, the era was one of misery and I am a miserabilist like my friends of the time, Orlando Pelayo, Jean Jansem, François Heaulmé... The new school of the Hive is made up of Paul Rebeyrolle, Simone Dat, Michel Thompson, Michel de Gallard, who practice an expressionist realism influenced by Constant Permeke, Bernard Lorjou and Francis Gruber, and basically quite close to our work of the era ".

From 1957 (the year he associates with his first exhibition at the Romanet gallery and the influence of Nicolas de Stael on his work) until 1959, he continued to exhibit and traveled to the Maghreb, the Balearic Islands, Geneva and Israel. In 1960, he married Jacqueline Daneyrole in Labeaume where he took up residence. From 1961 to 1965, he exhibited in Paris, Israel and Amsterdam. In 1966, her mother Rose Kikoïne died. In 1967, he rushed to Israel for the Six Day War. He disembarks the sixth. He voluntarily commits to Kibbutz Zikhron Yaakov and Maayan Zvi and works there for three months.

His father Michel Kikoine died in 1968, the year he was hired as a plastic art teacher by students at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris to succeed Raymond Legueult, who had resigned. Installed at 3, rue de la Cité-Universitaire, it will continue until 1985 this teaching which is historically associated with the emergence of the Vohou-Vouhou movement, which started with a wave of students from the Ecole des Beaux- Arts d'Abidjan came to continue their studies in his studio, to be from November 1985 to January 1986 the curator of the exhibition African Arts - Sculptures of yesterday, paintings of today organized on the initiative of ADEIAO at the Museum of African and Oceanic Arts in Paris.

At the same time, he continued to exhibit during the 1970s. In 1978, he participated in the production of the sets for Shakespeare's play Othello staged by Georges Wilson. He begins to work with the Yoshii gallery in Tokyo and Paris.

In 1987, he married Lidia Syroka and exhibited in Antwerp. That year, he made the first donation of his naive art collection to the Museum of Naive and Popular Arts in Noyers-sur-Serein. The second donation will take place in 2018.

In 2019, Jean-François Lacour, publisher of Jacques Yankel, testified: "He will be a hundred years old in April 2020, and what is surprising is his youth: he paints, he draws and talks about art like a child ".


We sell here

1 small original lithograph 
on a loose sheet of paper
 
Undated, around 1960

 Format
about 27.5 x 21.3 cm

 Good condition
Slightly yellowed paper, various small creases, slight traces of handling 
or various usual frictions

1 tear on left edge (2cm) without gaps

On the back side inscription and 1 signature in blue pen
"Old houses in Cassis - Yankel"

First Printing
 
  see visuals...
 
 Rare !



 

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In 1952, he returned to live in Paris, relocating to La Ruche, and made his debut as a painter at the Lara Vinci gallery, rue de Seine. In 1954, in parallel with his thesis defense in geology at the Sorbonne, he exhibited his works in Paris and Mulhouse. In 1955, he had his first successes as an artist. He won the Neumann Prize, which he shared with Reginald Pollack, the 1st prize from the Society of Art Lovers, as well as the Fénéon Prize, resituating himself thus: "in Paris, the era was one of misery and I am a miserabilist like my friends of the time, Orlando Pelayo, Jean Jansem, François Heaulmé... The new school of the Hive is made up of Paul Rebeyrolle, Simone Dat, Michel Thompson, Michel de Gallard, who practice an expressionist realism influenced by Constant Permeke, Bernard Lorjou
In 1952, he returned to live in Paris, relocating to La Ruche, and made his debut as a painter at the Lara Vinci gallery, rue de Seine. In 1954, in parallel with his thesis defense in geology at the Sorbonne, he exhibited his works in Paris and Mulhouse. In 1955, he had his first successes as an artist. He won the Neumann Prize, which he shared with Reginald Pollack, the 1st prize from the Society of Art Lovers, as well as the Fénéon Prize, resituating himself thus: "in Paris, the era was one of misery and I am a miserabilist like my friends of the time, Orlando Pelayo, Jean Jansem, François Heaulmé... The new school of the Hive is made up of Paul Rebeyrolle, Simone Dat, Michel Thompson, Michel de Gallard, who practice an expressionist realism influenced by Constant Permeke, Bernard Lorjou
In 1952, he returned to live in Paris, relocating to La Ruche, and made his debut as a painter at the Lara Vinci gallery, rue de Seine. In 1954, in parallel with his thesis defense in geology at the Sorbonne, he exhibited his works in Paris and Mulhouse. In 1955, he had his first successes as an artist. He won the Neumann Prize, which he shared with Reginald Pollack, the 1st prize from the Society of Art Lovers, as well as the Fénéon Prize, resituating himself thus: "in Paris, the era was one of misery and I am a miserabilist like my friends of the time, Orlando Pelayo, Jean Jansem, François Heaulmé... The new school of the Hive is made up of Paul Rebeyrolle, Simone Dat, Michel Thompson, Michel de Gallard, who practice an expressionist realism influenced by Constant Permeke, Bernard Lorjou