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CINQ FEMMES ARBRES

GEORGES SPIRO

SURREALISM, Mid 20th Century

Oil on Canvas

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Five Tree Women. Of course, why not? Imaginative and artfully-rendered fantasy, reminding us and a celibration of the primacy of the life-givers on this plane, in addition being the nourishers of their progeny.

Size: 32.3 x 26.0 in; 81.92 x 66.04 cm

Signed: Recto, Lower right

Georges Spiro was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1909 and moved to Nice, France in 1942. By the end of World War II, Spiro signed up with the French Army and later became a French citizen. In 1946, after his wife died in a concentration camp, Spiro exhibited a dozen of his works in London. This successful show prompted Spiro to devote his life to art-making. In 1948, he exhibited in France for the first time where he received the “Young Artist Award.” Later, he showed in Bern and Cannes, before traveling to the United States to exhibit art in 1950. Spiro’s wonderfully dream-like imagery belies strong surrealist influences. The self-taught painter was fond of delivering his viewers to fantastical, other-worldly settings. Today, the work of Georges Spiro is represented in major museums worldwide