Alfred ABERDAM (1894-1963), "Mystic Riders"... - Lot 218 - Mytika Honfleur

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Alfred ABERDAM (1894-1963), "Mystic Riders"... - Lot 218 - Mytika Honfleur
Alfred ABERDAM (1894-1963), "Mystic Riders" HST, SBD, dated 1956 on the back with frame, 53.5x37cm Alfred Aberdam was born in 1894 in Lemberg, capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1913, he left for Munich to study at the Academy of Fine Arts. The following year, he was mobilized in the Austrian army and was taken prisoner by the Russians. He managed to return to his native town, which had become Polish again under the name of Lwów, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow from 1920 to 1922, receiving the First Prize at the end of his studies. After passing through Berlin in 1922-1923, where he had the opportunity to work in the studio of the sculptor Archipenko, he settled in Paris in 1924, in the Montparnasse district, where he formed the "Group of Four" with artists from Galicia like himself: Menkès, Weingart and Weissberg. He exhibited regularly until 1940 in several salons such as the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon des Tuileries, as well as in galleries in Paris, New York and Poland. During the German occupation, he took refuge with the pianist Anna Radlinska and had to stop all artistic activity. In 1944, he participated in the reorganization of the Society of Jewish Artists, of which he was Secretary, and the following year he was invited to participate in the Salon de la Libération. In 1947, he showed an important retrospective of his work in Paris, which then circulated in Israeli museums. Other personal exhibitions took place in Paris in 1952, in London in 1961 and finally in Tel Aviv in 1962. Alfred Aberdam died in Paris in 1963. He was posthumously awarded the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize in New York in 1967. Aberdam was an integral part of the Ecole de Paris. Our painting belongs to a period when, as Jacques Busse has written, "the artist creates a universe haunted by beings of human appearance, mythical characters, from a personal and secret mythology, accompanied by some kind of horse-like animals, centaurs perhaps, and is illuminated by mauve glows piercing a brown penumbra".
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