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Kikoin Mikhail (1892-1968)

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SurnameKikoin
NameMikhail
Birth year1892
Birth placeRezhitsa
Death year1968
Death placeParis
SexM

Kikoin Mikhail (Michail) (1892, Rezhitsa, Vitebsk Governorate – 1968, Paris) — painter.

From 1909 to 1912 Mikhail Kikoin studied at art schools in Vilna and Minsk. In 1912, together with Chaïm Soutine and Isaac Kremen, went to Paris, where he studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts under Fernand Cormon. Participant in World War I.

From 1914 exhibited his works at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne, and from 1926 at the Salon des Tuileries. In the 1920s–30s took part in many group exhibitions of Russian artists working in Paris.

His solo exhibitions were held in Paris at Galerie Chéron (1915, 1918), Galerie Licorne (1917), Bernheim-Jeune (1927), and Billié (1933); and in New York at Brummer Gallery (1929). In 1928 three of his paintings were shown in the Russian section of the Exhibition of Contemporary French Art in Moscow.

Author of a series of color lithographs Children of Israel (1956).