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Willy
Mucha (1905 – 1995) (Polish/French)
“Across
the Lake”
(From
the Falenckis)
Mixed
Media. Signed
10
7/8” x 13 ½” (275mm x 343mm)
Overall
framed size 20 5/8” x 23 ¼”
framed
with ultra-violet filtering low reflect glass. IMAGE IMAGE
Willy Mucha was
born in Warsaw in 1905 and studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts and
continued his studies in Austria-Bohemia and then Russia and Germany.
After the death of his father in the early 1920s he left Poland for France
where he enrolled in the University of Caen then on to Paris where he had a
studio in Montparnasse and he became part of the
School of Paris Art Movement. His exhibitions took him to many parts of
the world with particular successes in America where
he also met many artists and poets. In 1939 during the War he was
mobilised into the Tank Corps and then settled in Collioure
which he discovered in 1936 “on the road to the
Spanish Civil War” with the Torcatis Network.
He was involved in the passage of anti-fascists through the Banyuls
Pass. In 1943 he was threatened with denunciation and was sent to join the
Maquis in Aveyron. After the War he returned to
Collioure where his work was inspired by the light
and the infinite horizon. From his meetings and many friendships with
artists he created “The Gold Book” with contributions from 98 artists including
Dufy, Chagall, Picasso, Dali, Miro, Man Ray, Duchamp etc. He died
in 1995 at the age of 89.
His work is held in the Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris and he contributed to many international
exhibitions including Salon de Mai, Salon des comparaisons,
Salon des Artistes independants, Paris; Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo
“Do Figuratismo-Ao Abstractinismo”
1949; Art Gallery of Toronto, Canada “Contemporary art” 1949; Royal
Academy, London “The School of Paris 1900-1950” 1951; Exhibition of
Posters at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Nantes, “Ecole de
Paris” 1957; Tokyo, Japan “French Art” 1959; Chicago “Formit
collection of Contemporary Art” 1961; The School of Paris “Galerie
Charpentier Paris”; Palace of the Kings of Majorca, Perpignan 1986;
Galerie Odile Oms, Ceret 2005; Thomas Montsarrat & Clementine Combes, House of Catalanity, Willy Mucha Collioure 1940 – 1950, Perpignan 2016.
His work has also been exhibited in many
private galleries throughout the world including:
Galerie Edouard Loeb, Galerie Greuze,
Galerie Craven in Paris, Redfern gallery and O’Hana
Gallery in London, Engelberts Gallery in Geneva,
Gallery Seventy-Five, Barowil’s Gallery, Brentano’s
in New York, L’Atelier gallery in Zurich, Stadia
Graphic’s Gallery in Sidney, Prinzhorn Gallery in Vienna and
Syra Gallery in Barcelona.