05 Marine Paintings, Henryk Epstein's Port in Erbalunga, Cap Corse on Corsica, With Footnotes #311

Henri EPSTEIN 1892 - 1944

BORD DE MER

Oil on canvas

h: 46 w: 61 cm

Private collection

Sold for  €10,140 EUR in April 2016

"Epstein made Corsica very real to me, with its warm atmosphere, a country so pure in its smallest things: trees, houses, men, animals, he transported me under the great olive trees where it is good to dream, not far from the tirelessly blue sea [...] He, the painter, captured in these great places the intimate union of beings and things, he fixed the fisherman against the boat, he made the red of the rough blouses of the men sing against the pink tones of the landed rays" Gustave Coquiot (Puit 1865 - Paris 1926

Henryk Epstein (1891 - 1944)

Port in Erbalunga, Cap Corse on Corsica, c. 1926-1929

Oil on canvas

38 x 61 cm

Private collection

SOLD for PLN 50,000 in March 2022

Erbalunga or Erbalonga is an ancient fishing village on Cap Corse, in the municipality of Brando in the French department of Haute-Corse, Corsica. The village of Erbalonga is the most northerly coastal settlement of Cap Corse, with vertiginous roads and sloping maquis beyond. 

Henri EPSTEIN (Lodz 1891 - Auschwitz 1944)

Port of Erbalunga, Cap Corse, Circa 1926

Oil on canvas

50 x 73 cm

Private collection

SOLD for €21,500 in MAY 2021

Henri EPSTEIN (Lodz 1891 - Auschwitz 1944)

Port of Erbalunga, Cap Corse, Circa 1926

Oil on canvas

13 x 27.5 cm

Private collection

Sold for €2,200 EUR in August  2021

Henri Epstein (Polish 1892-1944)

Strolling Along the Pier

Oil on canvas

46 x 38 cm

Private collection

Sold for $7,000 USD in March 2021

Henryk Epstein (born in 1891 in Łódź , died in 1944) - Polish painter and graphic artist, active in France, belonging to the École de Paris .

He began studying drawing and painting at a school in Lodz. In 1910 he began studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , from 1912 he studied in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière . During World War I, he reported to the Polish military units. After the war, he stayed with the Parisian avant-garde painters in Montparnasse , associated with the La Ruche rotunda. From 1921, he participated in Paris painting exhibitions, incl. at the Autumn Salon (1921), the Salon of the Independents (1921, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1928) and the Salon des Tuilleries (1927–1931). Between 1929 and 1931 he visited Brittany , staying in Quiberon and Concarneau , he painted fishermen and their surroundings, harbors, and still lifes depicting seafood, fish and birds. In the mid-1930s, he bought a farm near Épernon, where he often traveled. After the outbreak of World War II, he hid there, but was denounced and arrested on February 23, 1944. Initially, he was in a transit camp in Drancy, wife and daughter tried to get him out of there but to no avail. In transport no. 69 on March 7, 1944 he was taken to the camp in Auschwitz , where he died. The exact date of Henry Epstein's death is unknown. More on Henryk Epstein

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