Moshe Bagel Bahefer (1908-1995) - Composition abstraite au soleil rouge

"Abstract Composition under a Red Sun" - Moshe Bagel - 1980 Moshe Bagel (1908–1995) — Painter and graphic designer, Bauhaus and the School of Paris Moshe Bagel, also known as Moshe Bahelfer and Moses Bahelfer, is a painter, graphic designer, illustrator and stage designer born on June 29, 1908 in Vilnius, today Lithuania, and who died in Paris in 1995. After artistic training in Vilnius, he joined the Yung Vilna group, bringing together young artists, writers and poets of Yiddish expression. In 1928, he entered the Bauhaus in Dessau, one of Europe’s major schools of modern art. From 1928 to 1932, he studied graphic arts and advertising, as well as painting with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger. He earned his Bauhaus diploma with distinction in February 1932. This training left a lasting mark on his artistic approach, particularly in his interest in the construction of forms, composition, and abstraction. He settled in Paris in 1933 and pursued a diversified career. He worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for the Nouvelle Revue Française, illustrated children’s books, and carried out photographic reporting for the VU agency. He also developed activity in theater, designing sets and costumes for Yiddish theater. In 1939, he joined the French Foreign Legion. During the Occupation, based in Toulouse, he participated in the Resistance by forging false identity papers. From 1947 to 1968, he directed the advertising workshop of the film company 20th Century Fox in Paris. In 1959, UNESCO commissioned him to create fifteen large works inspired by the universe of the Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem. After their presentation at UNESCO's headquarters, Bagel donated them to the foundation devoted to the writer in Tel Aviv. In 1968, his works were included in the itinerant exhibition 50 Jahre Bauhaus, organized by the Württembergischer Kunstverein of Stuttgart and shown in several international cities. Moses Bagel occupies a particular place in 20th-century modern art, at the crossroads of the Bauhaus, the School of Paris and graphic arts. His career testifies to a varied artistic practice, ranging from illustration and figuration to geometric and abstract research. References * Bauhaus Kooperation — "Moshe Bahelfer": https://bauhauskooperation.de/en/wissen/das-bauhaus/koepfe/biografien/biografie-detail/person-38 * Bureau d’art École de Paris — "Moses Bagel (Moshe Bahelfer, aka)": https://ecoledeparis.org/en/moses-bagel/ * Nadine Nieszawer and Deborah Princ, Jewish Artists of the School of Paris, 1905–1939. Provenance of the work This work comes from a family collection linked to the artist Moses Bagel (also known as Moses Bahelfer). It was kept within the artist’s grandmother’s family, with whom the artist lived. It has been passed down within this family history and is today offered for sale by a member of this family. This family provenance constitutes an important element of the work’s history.

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