Andre' Lanskoy (1902-1976) - Senza Titolo, litografia del 1960 di cm. 69,5x50,5

Andre' Lanskoy.
Title: "Untitled".
Color lithograph
Sheet dimensions: 69.5 x 50.5 cm
Image dimensions: 40 x 59.5 cm
Ed. 10/99
Signed at bottom right, edition number at bottom left
The lithograph has minor imperfections along the white border, but the image is in perfect condition.
Printer: Alberto Caprini - Rome

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Andrei Mikhailovich Lanskoy was born in Moscow in 1902. He enlisted in the Tsarist army in 1919 and fought on the Crimean front. In 1921, he was forced into exile, settling in France, in Paris. There Lanskoy met Russian artists and began painting after enrolling at the Académie de la Grande-Chaumière. He discovered the work of Van Gogh and Matisse, and became friends with Soutine, whose influence can be felt in Lanskoy’s work from this period. Initially, Lanskoy painted landscapes, still lifes, and portraits.
Wilhelm Uhde noticed him in 1924, and until 1939 Lanskoy exhibited in the Netherlands. His first solo exhibition in Paris was in 1925. Around 1937, Lanskoy began moving toward abstraction, exploring this new direction with a series of gouaches made between 1938 and 1940. He gradually abandoned figurative art in favor of informal painting. Lanskoy worked with color, endlessly unfolding an intimate universe across his canvas. The artist said: “I think it is the love with which one picks up the color on the palette and spreads it across the canvas that warms and illuminates the painting.” Lanskoy painted with generous impasto; his vividly colored harmonies are sensitive and vibrant.
In 1948, an important exhibition of his work was organized in Paris; it was followed by exhibitions in Brussels, London, Lausanne, Zurich, New York, Berlin, and other cities, bringing him recognition and acclaim throughout the world.
From the 1950s onward, alongside painting, Lanskoy created designs for tapestries and illustrations for books (“Diary of a Madman” by Gogol, etc.). The artist produced a large body of work on paper, including gouache, collage—since he enjoyed using several creative techniques on the same support—and lithographs. He also created mosaics. Lanskoy was one of the last representatives of the Russian school (Nicolas de Staël, Charchoune, Poliakoff, ...), which, together with many great artists, contributed to the École de Paris.
The artist died in the French capital in 1976.