Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1950s.
In 1933, he joined the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists, where he became general secretary of the section of Painters and Sculptors. In 1936, Taslitzky participated in the exhibition that brought together Picasso , Léger , Matisse , Braque , Jean Lurcat , Laurens and Pignon in the lobby of the Alhambra Theatre.
Taslitzky was captured in June 1940 by the Nazis, escaped in August and joined the Resistance. He was arrested again in November 1941, sentenced to two years in prison, and then on July 31, 1944 was deported to Buchenwald , where he manages to make some two hundred drawings showing life in the camps. "If I go to hell, I will make sketches. Besides, I have experience, I've been there and I've drawn!", he later said. His mother died at Auschwitz. In 1946, Taslitzky exhibited his works which were inspired by the Resistance and Deportation, winning the Prix Blumenthal. He was later awarded the Military Cross and Military Medal and in 1997 he received the insignia of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour under the Resistance and Deportation.
Works by the artists are held by museums worldwide, from the Pompidou Centre (Musée National d'Art Moderne) and the Museum of the 1930s (Boulogne-Billancourt), in Paris to the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Tate Gallery owns three paintings by the artists, which have been on show regularly.
Measuring 12 x 17.5cm and signed at the lower left, the overall size in a simple frame is 19.5 x 25.5 cm
Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1950s.
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Equestrian Study, Horse Drawing After Gericault Graphite on Paper
