Abstract Oil on Canvas by Paul Kallos (1928 2001) - Titled "Peinture", Framed

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Paul Kallos (1928 - 2001) was active/lived in France, Hungary. Signed and dated lower right.

Measurements include the frame.

Paul … more Paul Kallos (1928 - 2001) was active/lived in France, Hungary. Signed and dated lower right.

Measurements include the frame.

Paul Kallos was a French abstract artist of Hungarian descent. In 1946 he entered the School of Fine Arts in Budapest. In 1949 Kallos clandestinely leaves Stalinist Hungary. He settles with the status of a political refugee in Paris. He often visited the Louvre, where he especially remembered Hals, Rembrandt, Tintoretto, and Veronese. Paul Kallos became a French citizen in 1974.

In 1951, four paintings by Kallos were first exhibited at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. He exhibited abroad in 1955 in London, in 1957 in Turin, in 1958 in New York, in 1960 in Basel, and in 1961 again in New York and Toronto. In 1986, together with Victor Vasarely and other Hungarian emigrant artists, he exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Budapest.

The artist’s works are in The Centre Pompidou, Paris’ Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Saint-Etienne, the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, the Museum of Fine Arts in Dijon, the Denver Art Museum, the museums of Tel Aviv, Rio de Janeiro, Toronto, Eindhoven, Rehovot, Metz, Evreux, Epinal. less