Molli CHWAT (1888 - 1979), Crab and Lobster

oil, fiberboard, 49 × 68 cm
Signed p. g.: MChwat
Provenance: private collection Warsaw

Born in 1888 in Bialystok, died in 1979 in Paris - Polish and French painter of Jewish origin, representative of École de Paris. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, after graduating in 1906 on the advice of his lecturer Ilya Riepin he left to continue his studies in Paris. From 1910 he lived in Russia for eight years, then from 1918 or 1925 he stayed in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. After the outbreak of World War II, he went to Casablanca and returned to Paris in 1945. His works participated in exhibitions held at the Autumn Salon in 1952-68, the Salon des Beaux Arts in 1956. Molli Chwat's solo exhibitions were held in Paris at the Zak Gallery in 1951-52, at the Montmorency Gallery in 1958, in Brussels in 1953, Nancy in 1954, in Saarbrücken in 1955, among others. Molli Chwat mainly created expressionist landscapes and portraits, and after World War II he also painted biblical scenes.