Abstract composition signed by Sascha Alexandre GARBELL - Ecole de Paris -Réalités nouvelles

Beautiful abstract composition signed by Sascha Alexandre GARBELL (1903-1970)
Gouache on paper signed lower right
Label of the Parisian gallery J.Le Chapelin
Dimensions: 17 x 25.5 cm
Alexandre Garbell (known as Sacha) was a French painter of the Paris School, born in Riga, Latvia (then part of the Russian Empire) on April 26, 1903 and died in Paris 20e on December 31, 1970.

After studying in Moscow and moving with his family to Germany, where he attended the Heidelberg Academy, he arrived in Paris in 1923 to study with Roger Bissière at the Académie Ransono, where his co-disciples and friends included Jean Le Moal, Alfred Monessier and Francis Gruber. He thus became part of what came to be known as the École de Paris. But he soon worked on his own, demonstrating an independence and freedom from all groups and schools that never diminished.

He overcame the opposition between abstraction and figuration to render reality in terms of shapes, colors and rhythms. Figuration risks stopping at the anecdotal; Garbell seeks the essential; he doesn't represent, he translates, he transposes. "A whole sector of the generation of painters who emerged around 1950 stemmed from his conceptions," confirmed the daily Le Monde in announcing his death[...

Garbell was an important figure in the Paris School, and influenced the painters of the Lyon School.

I invite you to read his wikipedia page to complete this brief presentation.

As the frame is not of great interest, it can be removed for a lower shipping cost.

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