Leonide Frechkop (1897-1982) - Résurrection du Christ

Watercolor representing the resurrection of Christ signed

Leonid FRECHKOP (1897-1982)
Leonid Isaacovitch Frechkop (Леонид Исаакович Фрешкоп) is a Russian painter born November 6, 1897 in Moscow, died November 10, 1982 in Brussels.

Biography

View of Malaya Dmitrovka, the street where Leonid Frechkop was born (Photo Moreorless, 2008) .
Leonid was born in Malaya Dmitrovka in Moscow, his parents being Isaac Abramovich Frechkop (born in Simferopol in 1864) and his wife Eugenia Akimovna Kalmykova (born in Novocherkassk in 1874) 1. He is the younger brother of the Belgian cryptozoologist scientist Serge Isaacovitch Frechkop.

Student between 1916 and 1920 of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, with teachers Constantin Korovin, Abram Arkhipov and Nikolaï Kassatkine2, Leonid Frechkop, leaving the U. S. S. R. through the port of Riga, arrived in France in 1921, then in Belgium in 1922Note 1 to settle there permanently, starting there as a painter-decorator and contributing to the creation in 1923, for the Royal Theater of Antwerp, of the sets of the operas The Golden Cockerel by Nicolaï Rimsky-Korsakov and Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Illitch Tchaikovsky. He became friends with the theater decorator, originally Argentinian, Jules Payró, where an entire artistic and intellectual community met (there were the writer Paul-Aloïse De Bock and the surrealist painter Paul Delvaux) . In 1925, Leonid Frechkop married Joséphine Edward, pianist1, making him the brother-in-law of the Belgian painter Marcel Canneel.

In 1935, Leonid Frechkop spent a year in Argentina (very linked to Argentine artistic and intellectual circles, a personal exhibition was dedicated to him in 1936) and in Venezuela. We know from his work that his vacations in France took him to Savoie, Provence and even Corsica. In 1968, his trip to Turkey essentially inspired a series of works on the theme of the Taurus Mountains4.

Also a translator of the poetry of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov and Apollon Maïkov, an art critic through the articles he devotes to the Belgian art of his time, Leonid Frechkop is seen by Laurence Brogniez as one painters from Belgium who have gone beyond their vocation as artists through writing5.

Bibliophilic contributions
Edmond-Luc Dumoulin, The Worried Bird, poetic manifesto, illustrated by Georges Comhaire, Laurent Larose and Leonid Frechkop, DUP editions, Liège, 1956.

Dimensions: without frame: 57 cm x 76 cm

with frame: 62 cm x 92 cm

It is signed in the middle left at the bottom and dated 24 for 1924.

We estimate this work between 300 and 400 euros.

Auction results for Leonide FRECHKOP in Drawing-Watercolor

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Standing nude
Charcoal/paper
120 x 80 cm
Estimate: €3,753 - €6,255
Hammer price: €2,502
May 30, 2012
Bonhams
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a group of six works
A Group of Six Works
Pencil/paper
Estimate: €1,845 - €2,460
Hammer price: €1,845
04 Jun 2014
Macdougall Arts Ltd.
More details (lot #261)

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Reclining Nude (1955)
Pastel/paper
51 x 68 cm
Hammer price: €1,204
12 Nov 1991
Horta
More details (lot # 390)
naked standing
Nude Standing (1953)
Charcoal/paper
120 x 80 cm
Estimate: €700 - €1,000
Hammer price: €1,000
Oct 25, 2011
Campo & Campo
More details (lot # 113)