Willy MuchaLarge Polish French Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Willy Mucha, Ecole Paris, 1963

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French Large Abstract Expressionist Oil on Canvas Painting by Willy Mucha 1963
Frame: 39.5 X 52.5
Image: 38 X 51


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Frame: 39.5 X 52.5
Image: 38 X 51


Willy Mucha (1905 - 1995) was active/lived in France. Willy Mucha is known for vintage travel posters and abstract painting.

Willy Mucha (French 1905-1995)
The Polish born painter Willy Mucha was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1905; his precise biography remains unclear and he himself left doubt as to a possible relationship with Alfons Mucha, his Czech namesake. Willy Mucha began his studies of drawing and music in Poland and continued them in Austria Bohemia, then in Russia and Germany. After the death of his father in the early 1920s, he abruptly left his family and Poland. He undertook trips all over Europe (he was a pupil of the Polish painter and engraver Ladislas Skoczylas), then settled in France, which all artists dreamed of at the time; after enrolling at the University of Caen, he moved to the capital, where he joined the ranks of the Ecole de Paris.
Olivier Debre, Robert Combas, Sonia Lewitska, Zygmunt Schreter, Joachim Weingart, Isaac Antcher, Isaac Dobrinsky, Benn (Bension Rabinowicz), Lebadang, Maurice Blond, Jacques Chapiro, Alain Bonnefoit, Frederic Menguy, Jean Baptiste Valadie, Serge Mendjisky. Mobilized in tanks in 1939, Willy Mucha suffered the debacle and settled in Collioure, which he discovered in 1936 "on the road to the Spanish War". With the Torcatis group, he encouraged the passage of anti fascists through the Col de Banyuls. In 1943, threatened with denunciation, he was sent to the maquis in Aveyron. After the liberation, he returned to Collioure. Mucha kept his Parisian atelier in Montparnasse. His exhibitions take him all over the world. His greatest successes were in the United States, the "new homeland of painting" where many of his friends urge him to settle. He claims this wandering as well as the nomadism of his life and his style. Dismissing the figurative abstract quarrel, Willy Mucha made the Jean Bazaine formula his own: "The destiny of the world is not played out between the figurative and the non-figurative, but between the incarnate and the non-incarnate, which is quite different."
In Paris, but also in Collioure, the artist frequented the surrealist artists Raoul Dufy, Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst, Roberto Matta, Camille Bryen, André Masson, Edouard Pignon, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Serge Poliakoff and most of the important painters of his time. He is thought to be worldly, yet he is solitary and contemplative. He was influenced by Surrealism and Expressionism and his work is similar to Enrico Donati. Mucha will remain unfailingly linked to his elective land of Collioure, whose landscape he admired but, beyond the image, the light and the infinite horizon that will never cease to nourish his work. His career was marked by numerous exhibitions, both collective (Salon de Mai, Salon des comparaisons, Salon des Artistes indépendants, Sao Paulo, Art Gallery of Toronto, Royal Academy of London, Nantes, Tokyo, etc.) and personal. In addition to his line drawing, his painted work is truly a hymn to light and colour, inspired by the reality of places which he transfigures into almost abstract dazzle where the theme of the sphere (rising or setting sun) is recurrent."
He was included in the 1957 show Travel Posters at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. (MoMA) along with Ruodi Barth, Jean Carlu, A. M.
Cassandre, Marc Chagall, Jules Chéret, Paul Colin, Hans Erni, Abram Games, Augusto Giacometti, George Him, Jan Lenica, Jan Lewitt, Herbert Matter, Pablo Picasso, Raymond Savignac. See less