Youla Chapoval, Lances, 1949
Technical Information:
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 130 by 54 cm
Signature: ‘Chapoval’ on lower right, titled and dated on reverse
Provenance:
Collection of Bella Chapoval-Moisesco
Galerie Antoine Laurentin, Paris
Exhibitions:
Youla Chapoval: 1919-1951, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Oct-Nov 1964, No. 41.
Biennale des Antiquaries, Grand Palais, Paris, 11-21 Sep 2008. Reproduced on the cover of the catalogue and on p. 72.
Bibliography:
Evelyne and Marie-Laure Moisset, Youla Chapoval: Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. Paris: AMATEUR, 2015. No. 515, reproduced in colour on p. 316.
Additional Information:
1949, the year the current painting was created, was very successful for Youla Chapoval. He celebrated more solo shows and won the Prix Kandinsky. While the colour scheme and composition of this painting seem joyous and playful the sharp angles, red accents and lack of order portray a disillusioned postwar reality.