Evsa Model: American Painter

This book is the first work devoted to the life and work of Evsa Model (1899-1976), a unique artist of Russian origin, active in Paris in the 1920s, who later emigrated to America with his wife, photographer Lisette Model. Saturated canvases of skyscrapers and geometric compositions without perspective, between which appear graphic signs or symbols, a silhouette, a face, an eye; his use of bright areas of color reflects his fascination with New York City. A painter, but also a gallery owner and bookseller of genius, as well as the curator of the decorations of his life in a quest for total art, he stands on the margins of the 20^th century avant-gardes, between constructivism and minimalism, abstraction and figuration.

On the occasion of the publication of the work Evsa Model: American Painter, the Baudoin Lebon gallery presents the exhibition “Evsa Model. First Sight” and “Lisette Model. Belmont Park.”

Exhibition from March 11 to April 10, 2010. Gallery Baudoin Lebon, 38 rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, 75004 Paris. From Tuesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

• Format: 20.5 x 25.5 cm

• 120 pages

• 130 color and black & white illustrations

• Paperback with flaps

• ISBN: 978-2-9155-4228-8

Text in French only

With the Baudoin Lebon gallery, Paris, and the Keitelman gallery, Brussels.