Gabriel Zendel (1906-1992) - Nature morte au bouquet
Artist: Gabriel Zendel (1906-1992)
Technique: Watercolour
Signature: Hand signed
Very beautiful painting by the French painter Gabriel Zendel (1906-1992) representing a still life with an apple and a bouquet. Work done in watercolor, signed and dated lower right.
Gabriel Zendel was born on January 6, 1906 in Jezov in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Ježovy in the Czech Republic) into a family of Polish origin. His father Joseph Zendel works as a bookbinder, his mother is Ryfka Jaskerowicz. He is the eldest of three children. His two sisters were given the first names Josée and Jenny. His vocation as a designer and painter was evident from childhood and was always encouraged by his parents. The family moved to Paris where Joseph successfully opened an art binding workshop on avenue Jean-Jaurès. Gabriel Zendel continues to draw from it the taste for artisanal work to which he reserves a very significant part in his work.
1925-1929: he enters the Institute of Contemporary Aesthetics, where Paul Bornet will give him, in all the techniques of the trade, solid training (notably copper engraving, wood engraving and printing of proofs) which will be interrupted by military service in Morocco in 1926-1927. Subsequently, apart from oil painting, he also practiced drawing, watercolor, gouache, engraving, lithography and even ceramics.
In 1940, arrested by the Germans, he escaped, crossed the demarcation line and settled in Cannes where he was welcomed by his friend Baron Raymond de Balazy and his wife Suzanne. He returned to Paris in 1944. From 1945, he began spending his summers with his wife's family, whose mother lent him a small house on her property in Ris-Orangis.
On December 28, 1939, he married Agathe Schneider, milliner, at the Paris 8th Town Hall. They will not have children.
In 1948 and 1949, he made a decisive trip to New York where he established a relationship with the Galerie Durand-Ruel.
In 1951, he moved into a large studio in the Cité Montmartre-aux-artistes, at 189 rue Ordener, where he lived until the end. From then on, his painting, definitely figurative, attracted a certain number of collectors to whom he sold his paintings directly, even if they could later also find them in galleries.
Also in 1951, he began spending long stays in a small village in Burgundy, with his wife's family.
A homebody by temperament, and above all enjoying the very warm surroundings of his homes, he gave up traveling in 1966, and then led a pleasant life surrounded by his loved ones.
On September 29, 1992, Gabriel Zendel died suddenly in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
Artist present in the following public collections: Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris. Petit Palais, Paris.
Rennes Museum of Fine Arts,
Saint-Étienne Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon,
André-Malraux Museum of Modern Art, Le Havre,
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Artist: Gabriel Zendel (1906-1992)
Technique: Watercolour
Signature: Hand signed
Very beautiful painting by the French painter Gabriel Zendel (1906-1992) representing a still life with an apple and a bouquet. Work done in watercolor, signed and dated lower right.
Gabriel Zendel was born on January 6, 1906 in Jezov in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Ježovy in the Czech Republic) into a family of Polish origin. His father Joseph Zendel works as a bookbinder, his mother is Ryfka Jaskerowicz. He is the eldest of three children. His two sisters were given the first names Josée and Jenny. His vocation as a designer and painter was evident from childhood and was always encouraged by his parents. The family moved to Paris where Joseph successfully opened an art binding workshop on avenue Jean-Jaurès. Gabriel Zendel continues to draw from it the taste for artisanal work to which he reserves a very significant part in his work.
1925-1929: he enters the Institute of Contemporary Aesthetics, where Paul Bornet will give him, in all the techniques of the trade, solid training (notably copper engraving, wood engraving and printing of proofs) which will be interrupted by military service in Morocco in 1926-1927. Subsequently, apart from oil painting, he also practiced drawing, watercolor, gouache, engraving, lithography and even ceramics.
In 1940, arrested by the Germans, he escaped, crossed the demarcation line and settled in Cannes where he was welcomed by his friend Baron Raymond de Balazy and his wife Suzanne. He returned to Paris in 1944. From 1945, he began spending his summers with his wife's family, whose mother lent him a small house on her property in Ris-Orangis.
On December 28, 1939, he married Agathe Schneider, milliner, at the Paris 8th Town Hall. They will not have children.
In 1948 and 1949, he made a decisive trip to New York where he established a relationship with the Galerie Durand-Ruel.
In 1951, he moved into a large studio in the Cité Montmartre-aux-artistes, at 189 rue Ordener, where he lived until the end. From then on, his painting, definitely figurative, attracted a certain number of collectors to whom he sold his paintings directly, even if they could later also find them in galleries.
Also in 1951, he began spending long stays in a small village in Burgundy, with his wife's family.
A homebody by temperament, and above all enjoying the very warm surroundings of his homes, he gave up traveling in 1966, and then led a pleasant life surrounded by his loved ones.
On September 29, 1992, Gabriel Zendel died suddenly in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
Artist present in the following public collections: Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris. Petit Palais, Paris.
Rennes Museum of Fine Arts,
Saint-Étienne Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon,
André-Malraux Museum of Modern Art, Le Havre,
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