Molli Chwat (1888-1979) / École de Paris - Les Palmiers dans les Parc

Molli Chwat (1888-1979) / École de Paris - Les Palmiers dans les Parc
Oil on panel
hand signed 'M Chwat'
Label with title on verso
c. 1930
dimenssions: 23 x 30 cm
framed: 31 x 39 cm
condition very good

Hard to find work of thhis painter from École de Paris


Molli Chwat (born 1888 in Bialystok, died 1979 in Paris) - Polish and French painter of Jewish origin, representative of the École de Paris.

He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. After graduating in 1906, on the advice of his lecturer Ilya Repin, he left to continue his studies in Paris. From 1910 he lived in Russia, then from 1918 or 1925 he lived in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. After the outbreak of World War II, he went to Casablanca and returned to Paris in 1945. His works participated in exhibitions organized at the Salon d'Automne in 1952–1968 and the Salon des Beaux Arts in 1956. Molli Chwat's individual exhibitions took place, among others, in Paris at the Zak Gallery in 1951–1952, at the Montmorency Gallery in 1958, in Brussels in 1953, Nancy in 1954, in Saarbrücken in 1955.