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Fauve Paintings

When the Second World War broke out, Serge Mendjisky was only ten years old. At twelve, he finds himself on his own in occupied Paris, where many children are used by the Resistance to transport weapons and false papers. This will be the case of Serge who, arrested by the Nazis, will narrowly escape deportation, thanks to the complicity of two "malgré nous" (against our will), these Alsatian soldiers enlisted by force by the German army.

After the war, Serge continued the Resistance. While the artistic period is about expressionism and abstraction, Serge celebrates life ; its beauty, its strength, its fragility. His palette is filled only with pure tones, bright colors, in the manner of the Impressionists and the Fauves. In the lines, his touch is inspired by Van Gogh, then by Cézanne whose perfection of composition, balance between color and drawing, allow him to take a step towards his pictorial objective : to paint the color of the air ; objective his father, the painter Maurice Mendjizky (1890-1951), had instilled in him.

Serge's earliest works date from 1958-1959 and receive critical acclaim. They are exhibited in Paris at the Galerie Saint-Placide, in New York, Los Angeles and Miami.





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Room 1

  • 1. L'Esterel
  • 2. La Forêt à Saint-Aygulf
  • 3. Les grands sapins
  • 4. Le Morvan
  • 5. Baie de Saint-Tropez
  • 6. Judo
  • 7. Le Tournant d'Auteuil

Room 2

  • 1. Avenue de Tourville
  • 2. Le Lac
  • 3. Bords du Loup
  • 4. Gros Bois
  • 5. Bouquet de fleurs
  • 6. Olivier à Saint-Paul
  • 7. Les Soleils
  • 8. L'Automne
  • 9. Forêt à Saint-Paul
  • 10. Bouquet de fleurs
  • 11. Les Soleils
  • 12. Baie de Saint-Tropez
  • 13. Reflets
  • 14. Les Ibis
  • 15. Le Vésinet
  • 16. Automne

Room 3

  • 1. La Danse
  • 2. Carmen
  • 3. La Plissetskaia
  • 4. Carnaval à Venise
  • 5. Déjeuner sur l'herbe
  • 6. Le Marché à Grasse
  • 7. La Colombe d'Or
  • 8. La Colombe d'Or
  • 9. La Colombe d'Or
  • 10. Yves Montand
  • 11. Nu
  • 12. Patricia
  • 13. Patricia pense I
  • 14. Patricia pense II
  • 15. No smoking
  • 16. Smoking
  • 17. Belle à croquer

Room 4

  • 1. Quai des Célestins
  • 2. Paris sous la neige
  • 3. Pont Neuf
  • 4. Notre-Dame
  • 5. Café de la Paix
  • 6. Place Furstemberg
  • 7. Place Furstemberg
  • 8. Pont des Célestins
  • 9. Paris au crépuscule
  • 10. Avenue des Ternes
  • 11. Avenue de Wagram
  • 12. Venise
  • 13. Le Grand Canal
  • 14. Venise matinale
  • 15. Venise
  • 16. Venise
  • 17. La Rochelle
  • 18. La Rochelle
  • 19. Londres sous la pluie

Room 5

  • 1. Sous le ciel de Paris
  • 2. Révolution pour un empire
  • 3. Étoile mouvante
  • 4. Centre vasculaire de l'art contemporain
  • 5. Requiem pour un bateau
  • 6. Emprunt à l'Égypte
  • 7. Chassagne et Alicante
  • 8. Pont Neuf carré
  • 9. Furstemberg
  • 10. Grand Paris
  • 11. Miss printanière
  • 12. Liberté chérie
  • 13. Manhattan II
  • 14. Chinatown
  • 15. Brooklyn bridge
  • 16. Speed night in Broadway
  • 17. Walk don't walk
  • 18. Wall Street 05
  • 19. Hommage à Christo
  • 20. Façade écologique

Room 6

  • 1. Londres
  • 2. Trafalgar Square
  • 3. Le Triptyque de Canary Wharf
  • 4. Serge Mendjisky
  • 5. Serge Mendjisky
  • 6. Serge Mendjisky

Room 7

  • 1. Venise II
  • 2. Venise III
  • 3. Autoportrait vénitien
  • 4. Venise IV
  • 5. La Salute

Room 8

  • 1. Oudayas
  • 2. Fès, La Médina
  • 3. Fès, Les Mosquées
  • 4. Fès, Rose des Sables
  • 5. Buren, L'enfance de l'Art
  • 6. Derviches Tourneurs
  • 7. Topkapi
  • 8. Mosquée Bleue
  • 9. Bosphore
  • 10. Sainte-Sophie
  • 11. Aphrodisiac Bazar
  • 12. Sur les Docks
  • 13. La Place Rouge
  • 14. Pat in Moscou
  • 15. Magic Moscou
  • 16. Impression Russe
  • 17. Hommage à Youri

Room 9

  • 1. Lumière sur la ville
  • 2. Citadelle de David
  • 3. Jérusalem III
  • 4. Negev
  • 5. Capharnaüm
  • 6. La Plage
  • 7. Tel Aviv Puzzle
  • 8. Œcuménisme
  • 9. Kotel
  • 10. Bauhaus
  • 11. Al Aqsa
  • 12. Palais de David
  • 13. Jérusalem II
  • 14. Saint Jean d'Acre
  • 15. Jérusalem

Room 10

  • 1. Composition à la guitare
  • 2. Clin d'oeil à Braque
  • 3. Hommage à Kandinsky
  • 4. Rencontre avec Picasso
  • 5. Violons sensuels
  • 6. Guitare africaine
  • 7. Violon fond rose
  • 8. Bonne année Picasso

Room 11

  • 1. Nature morte au vase et à la pastèque
  • 2. Octopus, 1994, Mosaïque
  • 3. Chemin dans la forêt
  • 4. La Péniche
  • 5. Carnaval à Venise
  • 6. Venise
  • 7. Les Baigneuses
  • 8. Esterel
  • 9. Picasso

Room 12

  • 1. Oeil
  • 2. Bouche I
  • 3. Jeu de mains
  • 4. Rencontre entre Braque et Calder
  • 5. Hommage à Mondrian
  • 6. Babel
  • 7. Les Reflets de l'Invisible
  • 8. Cash à l'eau
  • 9. Mère porteuse
  • 10. Stiletto
  • 11. New Balance
  • 12. Nuit et jour
  • 13. Roue de la Fortune
  • 14. Phénix

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Fauve Paintings

When the Second World War broke out, Serge Mendjisky was only ten years old. At twelve, he finds himself on his own in occupied Paris, where many children are used by the Resistance to transport weapons and false papers. This will be the case of Serge who, arrested by the Nazis, will narrowly escape deportation, thanks to the complicity of two "malgré nous" (against our will), these Alsatian soldiers enlisted by force by the German army.

After the war, Serge continued the Resistance. While the artistic period is about expressionism and abstraction, Serge celebrates life ; its beauty, its strength, its fragility. His palette is filled only with pure tones, bright colors, in the manner of the Impressionists and the Fauves. In the lines, his touch is inspired by Van Gogh, then by Cézanne whose perfection of composition, balance between color and drawing, allow him to take a step towards his pictorial objective : to paint the color of the air ; objective his father, the painter Maurice Mendjizky (1890-1951), had instilled in him.

Serge's earliest works date from 1958-1959 and receive critical acclaim. They are exhibited in Paris at the Galerie Saint-Placide, in New York, Los Angeles and Miami.





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