Isaac Dobrinsky arrived in Paris in 1912 and was warmly welcomed by the sculptor Marek Szwarc. He settled at La Ruche and shared his studio with Chaïm Soutine. A year after his arrival in France, Dobrinksy fell ill and abandoned sculpture for painting. In 1914 he joined the French Foreign Legion but was quickly exempted due to medical reasons. Isaac returned to Paris and studied at the Académie Colarossi where he met Vera Kremer and got married in 1926. Vera, daughter of Arkadi Kremer, the founder of the Bund and of Patti Kremer, a Russian revolutionary socialist, was a recurring subject in his work. After living at La Ruche for 27 years, Dobrinsky moved to Rue d' Odessa in 1934. In the first two years of the German occupation, Dobrinsky...