Étienne FARKAS, 1887–1944, - Lot 187

Étienne FARKAS, 1887–1944, Tree Trunks / Log on a Dock Near a Bridge, 1929, oil on cardboard, with a black sketch on the back, signed lower left with a barely legible date, with an annotation on the back: … 1929. Dec. 3, 38x46 cm. Étienne (Istvan) Farkas was a painter of Hungarian origin, born in Budapest in 1887. He moved to Paris in 1912 to study at the Académie de La Palette, originally located in Montmartre, which had moved to the Left Bank in 1906, not far from Montparnasse. A painter of the School of Paris, he associated with Le Corbusier, Jean Cocteau, and Max Jacob. He returned to live in Budapest in 1932, where he was arrested, deported to Auschwitz, and murdered by the Nazis in 1944.

Estimación:800€

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