No.16 

Wladimir Baranoff-Rossiné
(Ukraine 1888-1944 Auschwitz) Le voilier, c. 1910, signed Rossiné, with authenticity stamp and the widow’s signature on the reverse, oil on canvas, 50 x 75 cm, framed, (PP)

Photo certificate: Dimitri Baranoff-Rossiné (the artist’s son) Paris, 25 March 2008, Archive-No. 264
Provenance: Rutland Gallery, London; private collection, South Germany
Exhibited: 1970 London Rutland Gallery, No. 27
Wladimir Baranoff-Rossiné spent the major part of his life in Paris. He came from southern Ukraine, having studied at the art school in Odessa between 1903 and 1908 and subsequently at the Academy in St. Petersburg. In 1908 he participated in the avant-garde exhibition Zveno in Kiev. He came to live in Paris in 1910, where in 1912/13 he met Archipenko, Braque, and Picasso. (exhibition catalogue, Koblenz 2003, pp. 27/28)
The artists’ colony in Paris had attracted painters from Russia and Bohemia, as well as from Italy, Spain, Mexico, and the USA. Close contacts had also been established with the German artists Franz Marc and August Macke. The circle around the Delaunays played a decisive role in the development of a new language in the visual arts. Sonja Delaunay-Terk maintained contacts with the visitors from Russia. She made friends with N. Udalzova, L. Popova, and A. Exter, who attended the private school of La Palette, their teachers being A. Gleizes, H. Le Fauconnier, and A. Lot. She also met the philologist A. Smirnov and the artist G. Jakulov (…) During his visit to Paris Jakulov presented his “solar theory” to Robert Delaunay, certainly influencing the artist in his preference for circular forms and colour contrasts. Such ideas were also fostered by G. Apollinaire (…). Besides propagating a synthesis of painting, the declaration of Orphism also embraced considerations involving a combination of colours and music. Wladimir Baranoff-Rossiné, who was also in close contact with the Delaunay family, favoured similar ideas (op. cit., p.20). Due to its orchestration of colour and light, which has a highly poetic and musical touch, the present work is reminiscent of Delaunay’s Orphism. In 1914 Baranoff-Rossiné went back to Russia and did not return to France before 1925. He was able to work there in peace until his arrest in 1942 (op. cit., pp. 27/28).

estimate €150.000,- to €250.000,-

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