Bela CZOBEL (Budapest 1883-1976) Lot n° 195

Woman's back Circa 1930 Oil on canvas 52 x 44 cm Signed lower left "Czobel". Béla Czóbel began his artistic career in 1902, in the painters' colony of Nagybanya in Transylvania. The following year, he studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, where he met Jules Pascin, Rudolf Levy and Walter Bondy. Czóbel moved to Paris in 1903. He lived at the Hôtel du Danemark in Montparnasse and studied at the Académie Julian. He took part in the Fauve movement and exhibited alongside Derain, Vlaminck, Braque and Matisse at the Salon d'Automne in 1905. In 1909, he joined the avant-garde group known as the "Eight". The work shown here was painted in Paris around 1930. During this period, the artist concentrated on depicting female models with their backs in full frame. E.V