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Signed Marc Sterling, ‘Paris #519’. Oil on Canvas
Signed Marc Sterling (Ukrainian/French, 1895-1976). ‘Paris (# 519)’. Oil painting on canvas, signed ‘M Sterling’, lower right. Signed, titled and numbered verso. Also having Art Gallery Hadassa gallery label verso. Provenance: A private collection: floral park, ny; Art Gallery Hadassa, tel aviv.
Marc Sterling was born in pryluky, a small town in ukraine, where his father worked as a grain merchant. At the age of twelve, he became the apprentice of an icon painter in a neighboring city. In 1909, as he was fourteen years old, he gave up his craft apprenticeship and left to study painting at the academy of odessa, where he also explored sculpture. In 1916, following his mother’s death, he left for moscow and enrolled in the school of fine arts. The following year, he was involved in the revolution and in the russian avant-garde movements. He studied under Vladimir Tatlin at the vhutemas, a revolutionary school that combined the school of fine arts and the school of decorative arts. He met revolutionary artists of the period, including the poet Mayakovsky, with whom he spent time at the studios where the propaganda posters were produced.
In 1922, Mayakovsky encouraged him to go to Berlin. He met Basia, a young polish student who later became his wife and bore him two children. The couple arrived in paris in 1923, and he spent time on the terraces of cafés in montparnasse where ecole de paris artists met up. He obtained representation by the Zak Gallery. In 1941, his wife, Basia died as a consequence of an operation.
During the five following years, Sterling totally lost touch with the artistic community in paris. In 1947, he acquires french nationality and re-established ties with his friends in montparnasse and exhibits his work in france and abroad. He becomes well- known for his nature morte, constructivism, and fantasy work.
Canvas – 18" high x 24" wide. Frame – 19 3/8" high x 25 1/4" wide.
Condition: Very good.
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