"It's an astonishing resurrection",
comments Antoine Laurentin from his gallery at 23, quai Voltaire, at the bottom of the building where Nureyev lived, where he exhibits Emil Szittya.
It's not every day that you find yourself faced with 300 paintings of a mysterious work.
“I rediscovered artists, Chaissac, for example, or Laboureur.
Some artists, very famous during their lifetime, are forgotten.
Emil Szittya was well known as a writer and art critic, but completely unknown as a painter.
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The case dates back to 2018. While strolling through the Friday Bookstore, rue des Martyrs in Paris, the visual artist Laurent Goldring unearths an old copy of
82 dreams during the 1939-1945 war
.
The book is signed Emil Szittya.
This name is familiar to him.
The child he was remembers an improbable character - frail silhouette, posture of a juggler, remaking the world in a cloud of tobacco - who told about Soutine, the Douanier Rousseau, Picasso and the beautiful days of the Hive.
Lawrence's mother...
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