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David GARFINKIEL (Radom 1902 – Paris 1970)
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David GARFINKIEL (Radom 1902 – Paris 1970)
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
Voluntary lot
Description
David GARFINKIEL (Radom 1902 – Paris 1970)
Camargue Horses
Oil on canvas
64 x 65 cm
Signed lower right ‘D Garfinkiel’
Exhibition:
David Garfinkiel (1902–1970), 5–27 July 2017, then 6–30 September 2017 at the Polish Historical and Literary Society / Polish Library in Paris
David Garfinkiel (1902–1970) was born in Radom (Poland). He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków and Warsaw under Józef Pankiewicz and Artur Markowicz. He was close to the Kapists, such as Jan Cybis. He took part in an exhibition in Warsaw in 1931. The following year, he arrived in Paris and discovered the Parisian artistic avant-garde in the cafés of Montparnasse, the Rotonde and the Dôme. War broke out and he settled in Lyon, where he exhibited in 1942; for although Garfinkiel lived in semi-seclusion, he continued to paint and even to exhibit. He also produced numerous designs for Lyon’s silk industry. After the Liberation, he returned to Paris in 1946. His family in Poland had perished, his studio had been ransacked and a large part of his body of work had been lost. But life went on, and Garfinkiel opened a photography studio in Belleville, which served as his painting studio – his raison d’être. He painted and drew tirelessly, holding a succession of solo and group exhibitions. In 1958, the City of Paris acquired *L’Exode* from the Galerie Zak. He took part in numerous art fairs. In 1970, he died suddenly. A retrospective was organised in 1972 at the Salon des Indépendants. Further exhibitions were held in various galleries and at the Polish Library in Paris on the Île Saint-Louis. In October 1960, David Garfinkiel took part in the 4th Taverny Painting and Sculpture Exhibition and was awarded third prize for the painting shown here, *Paysage de Seine-et-Marne*.
Critics were struck by the depth of his work. According to Waldemar-George, ‘when he arrived in France in 1932, Garfinkiel, a young recruit to the École de Paris, strove to penetrate the age-old secrets of French painting. He was not seeking a style. He studied the laws of colour… he imitated no one. He created his own world, his own private realm’. Edouard Roditi noted ‘his joie de vivre and a painterly sensuality that was entirely his own; and it is these qualities that distinguish Garfinkiel’s painting not only from the deeply tormented work of Soutine, whom he admired, but also from that of so many other, darker painters of the École de Montparnasse’.
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