Watercolor Of A Russian Dancer - Alexandre Zinoview ?- 32x50cm

Alexandre Zinoview - Russian School Dancer Watercolor Format: 32x50cm Passe-partout: 50x70cm Alexandre Zinoview dit Zino is a Russian and French painter of the first half of the 20th century. His eclectic work, which can be admired in particular at the Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne, at the Museum of the Thirties, at the Manufacture in Roubaix [archive] and at the Museum of the Great War [archive] in Meaux, takes the form of numerous paintings and engravings, but also of drawings, theater sets or fashion plates. Known in particular for his work as a draftsman and decorator during the Roaring Twenties, he was recently rediscovered as a singular character of Montparnasse in the 1910s and an original war painter of the Great War. Zinoview is indeed one of the many foreign artists engaged in the appeal of Blaise Cendrars in the Foreign Legion to defend their adopted homeland. He served there throughout the war, notably as an interpreter for the Russian troops engaged in France. Without any privilege or status linked to his artistic talent, he fought among the soldiers, for example on the Chemin des Dames in 1917 during the engagement of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France and gave an account, on the battlefield, of his experience. through numerous drawings and paintings that reveal the complex inner life of the soldiers as well as their harsh material living conditions. This work of war, kept entirely in his studio collection by the artist during his lifetime, as well as his diary from the front [archive], could not be exhibited and rediscovered until recently and gave rise to historical works. which made it possible to reconstruct the original trajectory of the artist. Alexander Zinoview - Wikipedia