Henri EPSTEIN (Lodz 1892 - Auschwitz 1944) Lot n° 35

Fishermen in Erbalunga, Corsica Circa 1935 Oil on canvas 38,5 x 55 cm Signed lower right "H.Epstein "Epstein has made Corsica real for me, with its warm atmosphere, a country so pure in its smallest things: trees, houses, men, animals, he transported me under the great olive trees where it is good to dream not far from the untiring blue sea [...] He, the painter, seized in these so great places the intimate union of the beings and the things, he fixed the fisherman against the boat, he made sing the red of the rough blouses of the men all against the pink tonalities of the disembarked rays [....] Beings linked to things, things linked to the sky, intimate union of the stones of Erbalenga with the blue. This small village of the Corsican Cape did not deliver its secret to the painter who worked there all summer. He would stay there for months and months still that it would be, he says every day, a new festival. He knows the perpetual changes of this sky, of this light coloring the things always differently; " In René Barbotte, La vie artistique Henri Epstein " L'Homme libre : journal quotidien du matin ", 20 novembre 1931, p.1.