Michel (Michael) Kikoine - Artist Info

About Michel (Michael) Kikoine

  • Biography

    Michael Kikoin (also Michel Kikoine) was born in 1892 in Rozitten, Vitebsk region, today's Rezekne, Latvia. Apainter, he studied in Art School in Minsk in the studio of Y. Kruger and in Vilnius Art College.

    He moved to Paris in 1912, and painted landscapes, still life paintings, portraits, and expressive nudes. He participated in Salon exhibitions since 1914.

    Personal exhibition venues were at Cheron (1920) and Netter (1924) galleries. Alsohe exhibited at Zborovsky, Bernheim, Billiet-Worms and Ersid galleries in Paris and in New York at the Brummer gallery.

    He exhibited at the Contemporary French Art exhibit in Moscow in 1928 and Ecole de Paris exhibition at the gallery S. Lesnick in Paris. In 1933, h...

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