Emanuel Proweller - Galerie Colette Allendy - 1954

Catalogue de Proweller "Peintures 1949-1954", Galerie Colette Allendy, 1954 -Original very rare!!!!!!
Beaux arts
Année de parution : 1954
Catalogue en très bon état, reproductions en noir et blanc, 10 pages , texte en Français, format 19 x 13 cm, expédition rapide et soignée

Emanuel Proweller was born in 1918 in Lwow (at that time Lemberg), on the border between Poland and Ukraine, to a Jewish family.

In 1939, at the age of 21, he exhibited the very first painting signed Proweller – a name that the war and anti-Semitism quickly erased. He continued to paint, but under the alias of Anatol Wroblewski.
Then, after an obligatory passage in the Red Army as a painter and musician, he signed a few paintings under the name of Abraham Alispector. As a survivor of the Holocaust, it is under this identity that he moved to Paris in 1948 to recover his self, his “I” and become a subject again: I, Proweller, painter.
He painted four yellow ellipses, floating on a blue background on either side of a symmetry axis: his first self-portrait.

What does Proweller seek? Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia wonders in an article published at the time of the artistʼs second solo exhibition at Colette Allendyʼs gallery in 1953. Perhaps the figure in abstraction?
No, it is in color that there is hope […] Color, left to lie fallow, can truly be alive, explains the painter. Painting is the start of a fight for life. Far beyond the geometry and abstraction of the 50s, color brings appeasement, contemplation, and a certain joy, in which life is still worth being lived.