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PAUL KALLOS 1928 - 2001
1928 - 2001 (Hungarian)
Title: Untitled, 1955
Paper Size: 11 x 9 cm / 4.3 x 3.5 in
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Dated Watercolour and Indian Ink on paper
Additional information: The work is hand signed and dated "Kallos 55" in the lower right part.
The work bears on the reverse the original label "Lucien Lefevre - Foinet 1237" and is also inscribed in pencil "M Monsieur don de Monsieur Pierre Loch 30th avril 1955 Kallos".
Provenance : Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris
The Lefebvre-Foinet collection of more than 200 paintings, drawings, and sculptures by such artists as Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, Balthus, Victor Brauner, Matta, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Joan Mitchell, Zao Wou-Ki and Paul Kallos was amassed by five generations of the family whose Left Bank shop furnished these artists with brushes, canvases, and paper, but most of all their famous tubes of colors and paints made from hand-ground natural pigments.
Paul Foinet founded the business in the 1880s, marketing his traditional artisan-made products by door-to-door visits to artist’s studios. In 1902, Foinet’s son-in-law, Lucien Lefebvre, opened the Montparnase premises on rue Bréa, called Lefebvre-Foinet, that would serve the art establishment for the next 90 years. Lucien was succeeded by his son, Maurice, a renowned figure, and then by Maurice’s daughter, Josette. Even after the Paris shop was closed in the mid-1990s, Lefebvre-Foinet honored a commitment to continue to make tubes and colors for about a dozen artists.
Along with art supplies, the Lefebvre-Foinets dispensed friendship, encouragement, advice, and often credit to indigent painters. American painter Dorothea Tanning (a.k.a. Mrs. Max Ernst) wrote in her autobiography of Monsieur Maurice’s “joviality towards gentlemen and gallantry in regard to ladies.”
Condition: Very good condition. Unexamined outside the frame.
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