tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72306086603959096642024-03-13T22:58:06.189+01:00Venale PecusThe masses will always be boughtPhrynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328146824940683687noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230608660395909664.post-46541378602196781752011-07-12T14:44:00.004+02:002011-07-12T14:51:40.046+02:00Rencontres...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p8XOKWI3WEE/ThxCqLb3VlI/AAAAAAAAACQ/X-Q2GjlDIPY/s1600/FILE0925.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p8XOKWI3WEE/ThxCqLb3VlI/AAAAAAAAACQ/X-Q2GjlDIPY/s320/FILE0925.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628446926697879122" /></a><br /><br />The walls have eyes...Phrynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12328146824940683687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7230608660395909664.post-71970182837946592322008-02-10T14:57:00.000+01:002018-04-08T02:44:23.215+02:00Sacha Zaliouk (1887-1971)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">Still taken from <i>Montparnasse, poème du café-crème</i>, a 1929 short film by avant-gardist filmmaker Eugène Deslaw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Alexander Davidovich Zaliouk, or Sacha Zaliouk, was born in 1887 in the small Jewish village of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radomyshl">Radomyshl</a> in Ukraine. From 1904 to 1910 he studied painting in Petrograd and at the Odessa School of Arts. After his studies he collaborated on a number of publications: the Odessa magazine <i>Crocodile</i> (1911-1912), <i>South Week</i> (1912-1913) and the <i>South Thought</i> newspaper (from 1911). Zaliouk also made drawings and illustrations for <i>Odessa Stage Revue</i> (1912). At the time he signed his work with "Sasha", "Sash" or "A.Z.". From 1908 to 1912 he took part in the exhibitions of the <a href="http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/S/O/SocietyofSouthRussianArtists.htm">Society of South Russian Artists</a> <i>(Obshchestvo iuzhnorusskikh khudozhnikov)</i> .</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">Round 1912 Sacha Zaliouk emigrated to Paris where he completed his art studies at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts. </span><span style="font-size: 130%;">It is also believed, according to Odessa newspapers of the mid-1910s, that Zaliouk enlisted as a volunteer of the French Army and fought at Verdun. </span><span style="font-size: 130%;">He lived and became known in the Paris area of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse">Montparnasse</a>, renowned for its artistic environment. Among his acquaintances we find fellow artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foujita">Leonard Foujita</a> and his tutors <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Collin">Raphael Collin</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Flameng">François Flameng</a>. His break-through came in 1919 when he exhibited his portraits of literary figures, artists and celebrities. The French newspapers at the time dubbed him <i>le plus Montparno des Montparno</i>. He also made a number of sculptures.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Below is another still from <i>Montparnasse, poème du café-crème</i> by Eugène Deslaw, this time showing a detail of Zaliouk's studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />In the 1920s he made a name for himself as a gifted illustrator, cartoonist and portrait painter. He worked for satirical French magazines such as <i>Fantasio</i>, <i>Sourire</i>, <i>Le Journal Amusant</i>, <i>La Parisienne</i> and the more scabrous <i>Paris-plaisirs</i>. For the latter he illustrated <i>Philantropie</i>, a story by Georges Simenon (<i>Paris-plaisirs</i>, n°85 (90?), July 1929).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />My apologies for the poor quality of the image above. I shall publish a better one as soon as I find a copy of the magazine. Below you'll find an illustration he did for the May 1925 issue of <i>Fantasio</i>. The satirical text translates as "Kiki, model for cubist painters. Or the woman who is about to be cut into pieces." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">A few more examples of his illustration work can be found at <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artist/594120/sacha-zaliouk.html">artnet</a>. On June 28th 2005 an auction house in Brittany, France, sold off a large part of his remaining works, among which many originals of known illustrations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">At this auction I acquired a few samples of his work myself, among which some very interesting sketches he made. Sketches are seldomly shown glimpses into the kitchen of an artist. Here is one example.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 110%;">And, finally, two more finished works. The first one is a detail of a portrait of a man. The original measures 32 x 40 cm. It was sold in a frame made by the artist and is executed in pastel. Unfortunately, I have not been able to identify the sitter yet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />The second work is a watercolour and pastel of a nude sitting man.<br />The size of the original is 26 x 18 cm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />I shall expand on this post whenever I find more information on Sacha Zaliouk. The main source for the current information was the catalogue of the June 28th 2005 sale <i>Atelier Sacha Zaliouk (1887-1971)</i> at Bretagne Enchères. Please note that my own contributions, notably the images showing the url of this diary, are not to be reproduced for commercial purposes.<br />
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Here is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Zaliouk">the Wikipedia entry on Zaliouk</a></span><br />
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