Fine Art, Arms and Armor, March 15th 2025, 10:00 AM Central Time
Lot 7118:
French/Russian/Finland Ivan Puni Avant Garde watercolor painting. Ivan Albertovich Puni also known as Jean Pougny (1890 – 1956) was a Russian avant-garde (Suprematist, Cubo-Futurist) and French artist, who intensively changed his style until it went into lyric Primitivism in the direction of Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. Ivan Puni was born in Kuokkala (then Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire, now Repino in Russia) to a family of Italian origins. He is the grandson of an eminent Italian composer of ballet music, Cesare Pugni. In 1909-1910 he studied in various workshops, including the Acad�mie Julian in Paris. In 1915 Puni together with the group of avant-garde artists (Aleksandra Ekster, Liubov Popova, Ivan Kliun, Ksenia Boguslavskaya, Olga Rozanova, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Nina Genke and others) joined Supremus, a group led by the founder of Suprematism, Kazimir Malevich. In 1915-1916 Puni, together with other suprematist artists, worked at Verbovka Village Folk Centre. In 1919 he taught at the Vitebsk Art School under Marc Chagall. He was married to Ksenia Boguslavskaya. In 1920 Ivan Puni and Ksenia Boguslavskaya emigrated first for Germany, and then (in 1923) for France. Since then Ivan Puni adopted the name Jean Pougny. He became a French citizen in 1946. Ivan Puni (Jean Pougny) died in Paris in 1956.
Size: 12 3/4" x 8 3/4".
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