Jacques Gotko (1899, Odessa-1944) Russian- Indian Women Around A Fire.

Oil on canvas signed lower right and on the back.
Dimensions: 55 x 47 cm, with frame: 73 x 64 cm

This colorful and expressionist canvas presents a very Gauguinesque subject.

Jacques Gotko, artist name of Yankelli Gotkovski, is a French painter and chief decorator, born in Odessa (Ukraine), died in deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau. Originally from Belarus, Jacques Gotko's family took refuge in Paris in 1905. Gotko's father, a steelmaker at Fiat, died prematurely in 1913, leaving his wife and children destitute. The young Gotko entered the Academy of Fine Arts, the courses of Marcel Gromaire. He has exhibited portraits and landscapes at the Salons des Indépendants since 1927. The art collector Oscar Ghez, of Jewish origin from Tunisia, decided after the war to acquire works by Jewish painters from the Paris school. died in deportation. He kept these canvases in his museum at the Petit Palais in Geneva and donated 137 of them to the University of Haifa in 1978.

Museum: Hecht Museum - Haifa, Israel.