Original signed lithograph by Jacques Yankel (1920-2020) 1/50 Abstract Ca 1970

  

20th CENTURY ART - ORIGINAL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH. BY THE ARTIST - SCHOOL OF PARIS - ABSTRACTION. Jacques Yankel, pseudonym of Jakob Kikoïne, born on April 14, 1920 in Paris, died on April 2, 2020.

In Aubenas (Ardèche), is a French painter, sculptor, and lithographer from the second School of Paris. Five years after his sister Claire, he was born at the Boucicaut hospital in Paris from the marriage of Michel Kikoïne and Rosa Bunimovitz - who did not accept this birth well, Kikoïne, along with Chaïm Soutine, fled to Cagnes-sur-Mer shortly before the birth, abandoning Rosa for a year, an abandonment that she will not forgive despite his very developed paternal instincts that followed. Jacques Yankel spent a precarious childhood in the artists' colony of La Ruche, at 2, passage de Dantzig in the 15th arrondissement, which remained the residence of the Kikoïne family from 1912 to 1926.

He grew up surrounded by his family and works of art until he entered kindergarten. In 1926, Michel Kikoïne acquired a house in Annay-sur-Serein (which would keep Yankel linked to the Yonne department), and in 1927 the family left La Ruche to settle in Montrouge (rue de Gentilly) - "my bad company on rue de Gentilly could have turned me into a real thug" Yankel recalled - before returning - "poverty caused us to leave the beautiful studio on rue de Gentilly" he remembered - to the Montparnasse district (7, rue Brézin) in 1933.

His schooling was poor and he was rejected from the School of Applied Arts and the Beaux-Arts in Paris. During World War II, he held temporary jobs in printing and engraving workshops. In 1941, he moved to Toulouse, in the free zone, and became a geological assistant. He married Raymonde Jouve the same year, with Michel and Rosa Kikoïne clandestinely and separately crossing the demarcation line to be present. He continued his studies and successfully obtained a higher degree in geology at the Faculty of Sciences in Toulouse.

In 1946, his daughter Dinah Kikoïne was born. He occasionally participated as an amateur painter in the Chariot group with artists Jean Hugon, Michel Goedgebuer, Bernard Pagès, Christian Schmidt, André-François Vernette, and Jean Teulières. In 1949, he was hired by the Ministry of Colonies for the geological map of Gao-Timbuktu-Tabankort in French West Africa. From this episode, he developed a certain taste for African art, becoming a collector. The following year, he unexpectedly met Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre in Gao.

The latter encouraged him to turn to painting. In 1952, he returned to live in Paris, settling back at La Ruche, and made his debut as a painter at the Lara Vinci gallery, rue de Seine. In 1954, in parallel with his thesis defense in geology at the Sorbonne, he exhibited his works in Paris and Mulhouse.

In 1955, he experienced his first successes as an artist. He won the Neumann Prize which he shared with Réginald Pollack, the 1st prize from the Society of Art Lovers, as well as the Fénéon Prize, positioning himself as follows: "in Paris, the time is one of misery and I am as miserable as my friends of that time, Orlando Pelayo, Jean Jansem, François Heaulmé... The new School of La Ruche is made up of Paul Rebeyrolle, Simone Dat, Michel Thompson, Michel de Gallard, who practice an expressionist realism influenced by Constant Permeke, Bernard Lorjou, and Francis Gruber. And quite close to our work at the time." From 1957 (a year he associates with his first exhibition at the Romanet gallery and the influence of Nicolas de Staël on his work) until 1959, he continued to exhibit and travel to the Maghreb, the Balearic Islands, Geneva, and Israel. In 1960, he married Jacqueline Daneyrole in Labeaume where he made his home. From 1961 to 1965, he exhibited in Paris, Israel, and Amsterdam.

In 1966, his mother Rose Kikoïne passed away. In 1967, he hastily went to Israel for the Six-Day War. He landed on the sixth day. He volunteered at the Zikhron Yaakov and Maayan Zvi kibbutzim and worked there for three months.

His father Michel Kikoine died in 1968, the year he was hired as a professor of plastic arts by students at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris to succeed Raymond Legueult, who had resigned. Settled at 3, rue de la Cité-Universitaire, he continued this teaching until 1985, historically associated with the emergence of the Vohou-Vouhou movement, stemming from a wave of students from the Êcole des Beaux-Arts d'Abidjan who came to continue their studies in his workshop, and from November 1985 to January 1986 he was the curator of the exhibition African Arts - Sculptures from yesterday, paintings for today organized at the initiative of the A. At the Museum of African and Oceanic Arts in Paris.

Artist's signature in pencil at the bottom right. Print run justification in pencil at the bottom left. Sheet size approximately 64.5 x 50.5 cm.

Superb composition with some figurative elements in red. Fairly clean copy, paper slightly yellowed at the margins and on the back.

Small stains in the margins and various rubbings. Small inevitable usual traces of handling.

Various minor folds on edges, in the margins, on corners, etc.. One corner of the print is missing. (on the lower left corner, old tear). Who worked with Jacques Yankel. Vintage Original Hand-Signed Litho Poster by the artist.

This is not a reproduction.