Oil on canvas. 1950, signed lower right Chapoval, dated on reverse VI 1950. Dimensions image approx 46*27 cm, frame approx 59*40 cm.
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Biography
Youla Chapoval was born in Kiev in 1919 but grew up in Paris to which his family moved in 1924. Beginning in 1942, he studies at various art academies in Paris, Marseilles and Toulouse. Between 1942 and 1945, Chapoval creates figurative and realistic work inspired by Fauvism. In 1947 he has his first solo exhibition at Galerie Jeanne Bucher, here Georges Pompidou buys an abstract work of his. In 1949 Chapoval has great success at the second solo exhibition at the Galerie Jeanne Bucher; here he exhibits canvases in round and geometric shapes in warm colors in which the influence of Juan Gris, Albert Gleizes and André Lhote can be seen. In 1950 there is a new development under the influence of Charles Estienne and Hans Hartung. There is a freer movement of the brush, the forms become more organic (lyrical). In 1951 he dies shortly after completing three murals for a school in Suresnes.
