Ida Karskaya - Artist Info

About Ida Karskaya

  • Biography

    1905: Ida Karskaya was born in Bender (Russia, province of Bessarabia, at present Moldavian Republic).

    1922: Leaves her country to study medicine in Ghent (Belgium) where she stays one year.

    1924: Moves to France, marries the painter Serge Karsky in 1930. She herself starts painting a few years before the war and becomes acquainted with Chaim Soutine who encourages her to continue. Karskaya will remain on friendly terms with Soutine until his death.

    1936: Birth of her son Michel.

    1943: First one-woman show in Montpellier, Galerie Favier.

    1945: Jean Paulhan, whom Karskaya met before the war, becomes interested in her work and introduces her to Fautrier, Wols, as well as writers whom she will befriend : Henr...

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