Exhibition Jacques Shapiro in Kiev

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evening of 10 April, as part of "French Spring" at the National Art Museum of Ukraine inaugurated an unprecedented exhibition of French artist of Ukrainian origin, Jacques ( Jacob) Shapiro " Kiev-Paris ».

The National Art Museum of Ukraine spectators awaited symbolic rendez-vous with the artist, who was involved in the formation of art of the twentieth century - the party of the Paris School Jacques Shapiro.
Phenomenon Ecole de Paris each year attracts more and more attention of Ukrainian researchers , collectors and art lovers. If before the representatives of the Paris School , Ukrainian natives knew , mostly abroad , but now they get the recognition and in our country.

[I-V]

absolutely wonderful artist whose prices are a rare exception exceed $ 5000, that simply unexplainable in my opinion.
Seems to me that it is not too long.


Here once discussed the situation with Paris.
the school as a whole and Shapiro in particular:


http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=152181

[SAH]

Сообщение от IV; 2553221"

It is a remarkable artist whose prices are a rare exception exceed $ 5000, that simply unexplainable in my opinion. Seems to me that it is not too long.

The same opinion ... very fine and talented artist , I hope that he would find a decent assessment .. By the way I heard that preparing an exhibition of his works in Monaco ... undoubtedly undervalued by the market. I'm sure that will increase in value.

[duche2]

The exhibition runs until May 4, 2013

The exhibition will be held the following events:

April 13 ( Saturday) at 14.00

About the artists working in Paris

Lecturer: Daria Suslov

April 14 ( Sunday) at 14.00

Ukrainian avant-garde

Speaker: Jean- Claude Markade , a French scientist and curator

April 21 ( Sunday) at 14.00

"In the middle of the Gruyere cheese ": Archipenko and his countrymen in Paris " Hive "

Lecturer: Vita Susak
http://life.pravda.com.ua/culture/2013/04/12/126480/
  artist, indeed , wonderful.

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As I understand it , this Dukat has prepared this exhibition - it was about 50 to Shapiro works and 20 from private collections.
The exhibition was opened by the Ambassador of France in Ukraine, were present and the Ukrainian Minister of Culture.
My colleague, the Kiev -pal was at the opening and show this thread some photos from the opening , he's prisutstvoet , also a participant in our forum.

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Jack (Yakov) Shapiro, Jacques (Ya'akov) Chapiro.
June 13, 1897, Daugavpils Vitebsk - 1972, Paris.

French painter of Jewish origin, theater artist, a representative of the Paris School. He worked in almost all genres - portraits, self-portraits, genre scenes, interiors, landscapes and still lifes.
Born in Dvinsk * (now Daugavpils, Latvia) in the family of Abraham woodcarver Shapiro, received a traditional Jewish religious education and began his artistic training at the age of ten years. In 1915, at age 18 Jacob began his studies at the art school in Odessa. In 1918 he continued his studies at the Art School in Kiev. During the civil war in Russia, took the side of the revolution, helping her, painted posters. In 1919 he headed the drawing school in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk).

In 1920, Shapiro moved to Petrograd, where he continued his studies at the Petrograd State Free art educational workshops (PGSKHM). Workshops were opened October 10, 1918 on the basis of the Higher Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (VHU) and placed in the buildings of the Academy of Arts. Among the teachers of this institution were former professor VHU L. Benoit, Kardovsky VE Savinsky and AA Rylov, Matveev, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, IA Fomin, N. Altman, Kazimir Malevich, MV Matyushin, Vladimir Tatlin and others

In 1921 PGSKHM reformed in Higher Art and Technical Studios (VHUTEMAS).
Along with his studies James led a children's art school and worked as a set designer, artist assistant Shlepyanova in the theater, directed by Meyerhold. In 1921, Shapiro moved to Moscow, where he continued his career as a theater artist, again collaborating with Meyerhold, also moved to the capital, creating sketches of scenery for performances of the Jewish theater-studio "Habima", which at that time led E.B.Vahtangov and read lectures Stanislavsky.
As historians write, Jacob was a hyperactive by nature gregarious and, for a short time, he met and became friends with many famous singers and theater artists. Among them was Alexander Benois, whose daughter - Anna Shapiro and soon married.

In Moscow, the artist began to numerous exhibitions, he has participated in exhibitions of the Art Bureau Dobychina N. (1922), Pictures of Petrograd Artists of All Directions (1923), the group "United Arts" (1925), etc.

 Already a recognized theater artist in Russia, and Shapiro in 1925 went to France. Shortly after arriving in Paris, spending scarce money quickly and provisions, Shapiro did not know how to live. Once in the cafe "Rotonda" Jacob met his childhood friend, the artist Volovik Lazarus, whom he had not seen for many years. Lazarus and Shapiro spoke of the artist colony called " Hive /La Ruche ", which Russian and named " A Rush " .

To be sure, lived in Paris for a great many Russian immigrants, Jewish as well. They were tied to know each other, settled in the same neighborhoods and went to some cafe.

In this cafe, the most emblematic of which were Le Dôme , La Coupole and La Rotonde , these young and talented, but almost destitute people who passionately loved art, going for a cup of coffee and debated, discussed, thought out. In addition, these are already "Parisians" heartily welcomed "newbies", shared with them their poor housing in a hotel room, studio or commune, the most famous of which was the Beehive. This was a known place, where they lived at the time by many famous artists, written a lot, but you can write about a few more words. >

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Beehive

The idea of ​​creating this kind of commune, dormitory owned by the French sculptor Alfred Boucher academics /Alfred Boucher.
He gets in a cafe with the owner, he learned of a plot of land sold to them (then the outskirts, where the cows were grazing), bought it for a penny the price, and then, seeing prepared for analysis after the World Expo 1900 Pavilion of tobacco, and bought it:
he rich bourgeois and commercial konyukturny artist, came up to build on their land for the construction of the Montparnasse train station this pavilion building is almost cylindrical in shape and in this building razgorodit area for small workshops with living rooms that would give up for a very modest rent for young artists and in the yard, he built several more spacious studios and a small teatrik.Ochen soon all regulars cafes of Montparnasse, who had problems with housing and work space, pulled to the hospitable Bush. Among the tenants "Beehive" include Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine, Fernand Leger and Alexander Archipenko.
For ten years after the opening, "Beehive" became a kind of Parisian bohemian center of international art. Shapiro later wrote (or is it Chagall said?) On his first refuge "in the hive, or die, or become famous."

So, he settled in this, as it was called, "paradise on earth", Shapiro has lived there for five years, from 1925 to 1930. In his postwar memoirs artist detailed and vividly describes his years of living in this colony of artists.

"I was able to rent a studio in La Ruche. It was a small square little room made of thin gypsum blocks, with a high glass ceiling. Feeling that the living room was transformed into a primitive loft. From the street, the smell of blood from a nearby slaughterhouse and earliest cock crow. Yeah, La Ruche was Palace »".

" Each day at noon , - Shapiro continues, - mouse appeared on the stairs of my attic. I treated them with bread crumbs, and they are, after all ate, looking at me with his little glow eyes, returned to his burrow. These mice brightened my loneliness ".
In winter, the water froze in the pipes, and the artist, wrapped in a blanket and tried to keep working. Jacob saved heater inherited from Soutine, who shared with him the artist Dobrinsky. In the summer, the walls and skylight, patched and full of cracks, heat up, as if in the room "bonfire."

However, living in such difficult conditions, Shapiro tried to conquer Paris. It was in the mid-1920s began to speak of the "Paris School", bringing together artists of Montmartre and Montparnasse, which, as the "heirs" of their national cultures, strongly asserted themselves in a multicultural, cosmopolitan Paris.

Incidentally, the term "School of Paris" coined in 1925 by the critic André Varney to refer to all foreign artists who participated in the artistic process at the time.
In the salons, academies and museums, they propagate their own avant-garde styles, inspired by Van Gogh, Cezanne and Toulouse-Lautrec, he reveals the world Expressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, and other trends and tendencies in art. Creativity Impressionists had a great impact on Shapiro, changing his style of art.
_______________________
* - was born in Dvinsk, and Mark Rothko, I recall.

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Jack (Yakov) Shapiro, Jacques (Ya'akov) Chapiro.
June 13, 1897, Daugavpils Vitebsk - 1972, Paris.

French painter of Jewish origin, theater artist, a representative of the Paris School. He worked in almost all genres - portraits, self-portraits, genre scenes, interiors, landscapes and still lifes.
Born in Dvinsk * (now Daugavpils, Latvia) in the family of Abraham woodcarver Shapiro, received a traditional Jewish religious education and began his artistic training at the age of ten years. In 1915, at age 18 Jacob began his studies at the art school in Odessa. In 1918 he continued his studies at the Art School in Kiev. During the civil war in Russia, took the side of the revolution, helping her, painted posters. In 1919 he headed the drawing school in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk).

In 1920, Shapiro moved to Petrograd, where he continued his studies at the Petrograd State Free art educational workshops (PGSKHM). Workshops were opened October 10, 1918 on the basis of the Higher Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (VHU) and placed in the buildings of the Academy of Arts. Among the teachers of this institution were former professor VHU L. Benoit, Kardovsky VE Savinsky and AA Rylov, Matveev, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, IA Fomin, N. Altman, Kazimir Malevich, MV Matyushin, Vladimir Tatlin and others

In 1921 PGSKHM reformed in Higher Art and Technical Studios (VHUTEMAS).
Along with his studies James led a children's art school and worked as a set designer, artist assistant Shlepyanova in the theater, directed by Meyerhold. In 1921, Shapiro moved to Moscow, where he continued his career as a theater artist, again collaborating with Meyerhold, also moved to the capital, creating sketches of scenery for performances of the Jewish theater-studio "Habima", which at that time led E.B.Vahtangov and read lectures Stanislavsky.
As historians write, Jacob was a hyperactive by nature gregarious and, for a short time, he met and became friends with many famous singers and theater artists. Among them was Alexander Benois, whose daughter - Anna Shapiro and soon married.

In Moscow, the artist began to numerous exhibitions, he has participated in exhibitions of the Art Bureau Dobychina N. (1922), Pictures of Petrograd Artists of All Directions (1923), the group "United Arts" (1925), etc.

 Already a recognized theater artist in Russia, and Shapiro in 1925 went to France. Shortly after arriving in Paris, spending scarce money quickly and provisions, Shapiro did not know how to live. Once in the cafe "Rotonda" Jacob met his childhood friend, the artist Volovik Lazarus, whom he had not seen for many years. Lazarus and Shapiro spoke of the artist colony called " Hive /La Ruche ", which Russian and named " A Rush " .

To be sure, lived in Paris for a great many Russian immigrants, Jewish as well. They were tied to know each other, settled in the same neighborhoods and went to some cafe.

In this cafe, the most emblematic of which were Le Dôme , La Coupole and La Rotonde , these young and talented, but almost destitute people who passionately loved art, going for a cup of coffee and debated, discussed, thought out. In addition, these are already "Parisians" heartily welcomed "newbies", shared with them their poor housing in a hotel room, studio or commune, the most famous of which was the Beehive. This was a known place, where they lived at the time by many famous artists, written a lot, but you can write a few words. >

Читать дальше... 

Beehive

The idea of ​​creating this kind of commune, dormitory owned by the French sculptor Alfred Boucher academics /Alfred Boucher.
He gets in a cafe with the owner, he learned of a plot of land sold to them (then the outskirts, where the cows were grazing), bought it for a penny the price, and then, seeing prepared for analysis after the World Expo 1900 Pavilion of tobacco, and bought it:
he rich bourgeois and commercial konyukturny artist, came up to build on their land for the construction of the Montparnasse train station this pavilion building is almost cylindrical in shape and in this building razgorodit area for small workshops with living rooms that would give up for a very modest rent for young artists and in the yard, he built several more spacious studios and a small teatrik.Ochen soon all regulars cafes of Montparnasse, who had problems with housing and work space, pulled to the hospitable Bush. Among the tenants "Beehive" include Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine, Fernand Leger and Alexander Archipenko.
For ten years after the opening, "Beehive" became a kind of Parisian bohemian center of international art. Shapiro later wrote (or is it Chagall said?) On his first refuge "in the hive, or die, or become famous."

So, he settled in this, as it was called, "paradise on earth", Shapiro has lived there for five years, from 1925 to 1930. In his postwar memoirs artist detailed and vividly describes his years of living in this colony of artists.

"I was able to rent a studio in La Ruche. It was a small square little room made of thin gypsum blocks, with a high glass ceiling. Feeling that the living room was transformed primitive loft. street with the smell of blood from a nearby slaughterhouse and the earliest cock crow. Yeah, La Ruche was not a palace »".

" Each day at noon , - Shapiro continues, - mouse appeared on the stairs of my attic. I treated them with bread crumbs, and they are, after all ate, looking at me with his little glow eyes, returned to his burrow. These mice brightened my loneliness ".
In winter, the water froze in the pipes, and the artist, wrapped in a blanket and tried to keep working. Jacob saved heater inherited from Soutine, who shared with him the artist Dobrinsky. In the summer, the walls and skylight, patched and full of cracks, heat up, as if in the room "bonfire."

However, living in such difficult conditions, Shapiro tried to conquer Paris. It was in the mid-1920s began to speak of the "Paris School", bringing together artists of Montmartre and Montparnasse, which, as the "heirs" of their national cultures, strongly asserted themselves in a multicultural, cosmopolitan Paris.

Incidentally, the term "School of Paris" coined in 1925 by the critic André Varney to refer to all foreign artists who participated in the artistic process at the time.
In the salons, academies and museums, they propagate their own avant-garde styles, inspired by Van Gogh, Cezanne and Toulouse-Lautrec, he reveals the world Expressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, and other trends and tendencies in art. Creativity Impressionists had a great impact on Shapiro, changing his style of art.
_______________________
* - was born in Dvinsk, and Mark Rothko, I recall.

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So, Shapiro, who became France Jacques, was active and exhibited. His work has appeared in numerous galleries, including the famous Galleria Bonaparte. Since 1926, the artist exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Tuileries, Salon des Independants, and the Soviet trade mission in the club.


Met in Paris with Sergei Diaghilev, Shapiro collaborated with his ballet company "Diaghilev's Russian Ballet" to the death of Diaghilev in 1929.
In 1928, he created the scenery for "Bolero" by Ravel in the Opera Garnier and the costumes for the Russian dancer Ida Rubinshtayn.
Shapiro held solo exhibitions in galleries Kleinman (1930) and Bonaparte (1936). Since 1935, he has participated in exhibitions of the Salon Sverhnezavisimyh (was and is).

In 1937, in Paris, on the initiative of artists and Aronson Vayssberga Association was founded by Jewish artists, numbering not less than two hundred members. In the work of the Association took part and Shapiro. Many artists of this organization its work is based on the use of the rich Jewish tradition. Among the most famous artists of this trend were, no doubt, Marc Chagall (July 6, 1887 - March 28, 1985) and Emmanuel Mane-Katz (1894-1962). A series of paintings of Jacques Shapiro Jewish historians also believe charming.

They also note that some works of Jewish immigrants traced proximity, such as watercolors Shapiro images like Chagall and Soutine techniques and topics Volovik Dobrinsky similar topics. This is understandable - artists pull together a common origin and culture.

It seemed to Shapiro and other representatives of the "School of Paris" is given the "green light" in the works, but in the 1930s, the conditions of existence of foreign artists in France were difficult.
In his book "Jewish Artists in Paris between 1906 and 1945.", Released today in France, says: "After 1929, the country began to reign economic crisis. U.S. customers rarely see, galleries were closed, many French collectors stopped buying art. Unfavorable economic climate spurred xenophobia and anti-Semitism. " When in Europe, the Second World War in France antisemizm increased.
In 1939, Shapiro because of his Jewish background became a refugee, he found refuge in the town of Serres in the Hautes-Alpes region (in south-eastern France).

From 1942 until the liberation of France, he lived in Karprentrase, then traveled to Italy, and then returned to Paris with his new wife Vadiey Zadeh and opened his studio on the Boulevard incensed.

Back in the capital, Shapiro performed lithography Knuth to the book "Selected Poems" and began writing a book of memoirs about life in the artists' colony "Beehive." This book was published in 1960. Critics wrote that the book is the first complete story of the "Hive", filled with anecdotal stories and interesting details. "Two hundred pages of text read like a fascinating novel" - Newspapers.

In 1946 and 1949, held his first solo exhibition in Paris. In 1950, Shapiro first exhibited in England in the Redfern Gallery in London. In addition, he has participated in many exhibitions of Russian art, including the exhibition "Russian artists School of Paris" (1961).

Biographer "Beehive" a Russian Jew who became a Frenchman, Jacques Shapiro has created a subtle, unique world of bright colors and unusual shapes.
The artist died in Paris in 1972 at age 75.

Shapiro paintings are in the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Art Institute in Chicago and the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin in Moscow, as well as in numerous private collections.

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In the 1960s the "Beehive" re-entered the life of Jacques Shapiro.
In 1951 and then again in 1967, the French press reported about the possible demolition of all the studios of artists colony "Beehive", located in the passage of Danzig, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

The first time passions subsided under pressure on the part of tenants, but after fifteen years, citing dilapidated buildings, despite compelling evidence of the active work of the artist, the government officially announced the demolition of the colony "Beehive." Notice of each tenant receives written, and this bombshell.

Shapiro, one of the first to this decision. With Marc Chagall and Raymond Konya, he organized the Committee, which was to promote the conservation areas and to fight for the abolition of the demolition.

Committee supported by many famous artists - Orchestra Gisela Halimi, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Merle, Claude Roy and many others. All wondered - Is Historic, created in 1902 by Alfred Boucher, to help artists, 70 years later disappear without a trace? The Committee will meet all 43 tenants, advising them to return to their shops, and assured them that the fate of the "Beehive" will be resolved in a positive way.

With the head of the Committee of the Creative Union of Artists Bernard Antonis gos.chinovnika got from Andre Malraux, who according to information was also an adventurer, a decision to cancel the demolition permit and block new construction.
In addition, thanks to the work of the Committee, the people "Beehive" received financial support from Renee and Genevieve Seydoux, and the "Beehive" klassifizirovan and was entered in the register of historical monuments.
It remains to add that in 1973, after a fire in 1970, 23 studios were renovated and even water-supply system (!), And in 2009, the Foundation "Heritage" included "Beehive" in the plan of the capital reconstruction City of Paris. As written press, "Beehive" is waiting for the second youth to delight new generations of artists.

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In the 1960s the "Beehive" re-entered the life of Jacques Shapiro.
In 1951 and then again in 1967, the French press reported about the possible demolition of all the studios of artists colony "Beehive", located in the passage of Danzig, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

The first time passions subsided under pressure on the part of tenants, but after fifteen years, citing dilapidated buildings, despite compelling evidence of the active work of the artist, the government officially announced the demolition of the colony "Beehive." Notice of each tenant receives written, and this bombshell.

Shapiro, one of the first to this decision. With Marc Chagall and Raymond Konya, he organized the Committee, which was to promote the conservation areas and to fight for the abolition of the demolition.

Committee supported by many famous artists - Orchestra Gisela Halimi, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Merle, Claude Roy and many others. All wondered - Is Historic, created in 1902 by Alfred Boucher, to help artists, 70 years later disappear without a trace? The Committee will meet all 43 tenants, advising them to return to their shops, and assured them that the fate of the "Beehive" will be resolved in a positive way.

With the head of the Committee of the Creative Union of Artists Bernard Antonis gos.chinovnika got from Andre Malraux, who according to information was also an adventurer, a decision to cancel the demolition permit and block new construction.
In addition, thanks to the work of the Committee, the people "Beehive" received financial support from Renee and Genevieve Seydoux, and the "Beehive" klassifizirovan and was entered in the register of historical monuments.
It remains to add that in 1973, after a fire in 1970, 23 studios were renovated and even water-supply system (!), And in 2009, the Foundation "Heritage" included "Beehive" in the plan of the capital reconstruction City of Paris. As written press, "Beehive" is waiting for the second youth to delight new generations of artists.

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Сообщение от I-V

Here once discussed the situation with Paris . the school as a whole and Shapiro in particular:

http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=152181

Your link to , IV, the theme of the Paris school, and there I found quite remarkable phrase of its artists:

Сообщение от artcol; 2034291"

They are very local.

To me, this phrase is most clearly sounded amid the next topic on the realistic art of the Soviet period, where some of the participants proved hard that is the art of a global phenomenon . >

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Cyril Syzran, thank you for such a detailed review of the story and creativity Shapiro!
What a wonderful artist.