Michel Kikoine

Painter, lithographer. Born in Rozitten in Vitebsk Province (1892). Attended the school-studio of Y. M. Kruger in Minsk (1905), where he met Chaïm Soutine, and studied at Vilna School of Art (1909–12). Lived in Paris (from 1912), awarded French citizenship (1924). Introduced to Paris art dealers by Amedeo Modigliani. Studied at the Fernand Cormon Academy (1912–13). Painted landscapes, still-lifes and portraits in a style influenced by Pierre Bonnard and Chaïm Soutine. Worked in Burgundy and close to Paris (1920s). Travelled in Spain, Italy and Israel (1950s). Worked in painting and colour lithography, creating the Children of Israel album (1953). Died in Paris (1968). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1914). Contributed to the Salon des Indépendants (from 1914), Salon d’Automne (from 1914), Salon des Tuileries (from 1926), École de Paris (1928), group exhibition of Russian artists in Paris (1931, 1936), Contemporary French Art in Moscow (1928), Russian Émigré Artists in Paris (London, 1954), Soutine and His Circle (New York, 1959), Russian artists of the Paris School (Paris, 1961), joint exhibition with Isaac Pailes (New York, 1963) and one-man shows in Paris (1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1924, 1927, 1930, 1933, 1935, 1948, 1959, 1963), New York (1925, 1927, 1929, 1947, 1962), Toulouse (1945), Montpelier (1946), Mentons (1951), Strasbourg (1951, 1956), London (1951, 1955, 1959, 1963), Bordeaux (1956), Saint-Paul-de-Vance (1968) and Cannes (1962).