It is an important work of the artist Michel Kikoine because he painted his house and studio, where his son Yanquel lived, painted and was born between 1927 and 1933. Read below his biography where his residence at 10 rue gentilly montrouge is recorded.artist: Michel Kikoine 1892 - 1968title: "house and atelie 10 rue gentilly montrouge"signed: Kikoine, painted on the back by the artist (10 rue gentilly montrouge)Measurements: 73 cm (29 ") x 60 cm (24").

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Michel Kikoïne was a French painter of Russian origin and Jewish descent. With an expressionist style, he belonged to the so-called School of Paris, and the son of a banker from the small town of Gomel, in Belarus, he began studying at the Kruger School of Drawing in Minsk. Wikipedia
Date of birth: May 31, 1892, ReÄyca, Belarus
Died: November 4, 1968, Cannes, France
Education: Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts
Children: Yankel
Kikoine was born in Rechytsa, present-day Belarus. The son of a Jewish banker in the small southeastern town of Gomel, he was barely into his teens when he began studying at "Kruger's School of Drawing" in Minsk. There he met Chaim Soutine, with whom he would have a lifelong friendship. At age 16, he and Soutine were studying at the Vilnius Academy of Art and in 1911 he moved to join the growing artistic community gathering in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France. This artistic community included his friend Soutine as well as fellow Belarus painter, Pinchus Kremegne who also had studied at the Fine Arts School in Vilnia.
For a time, the young artist lived at La Ruche while studying at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1914, he married a young lady from Vilnia with whom he would have a daughter and a son. Their son, Jacques Yankel, born in France in 1920, also became a painter. The same year as his marriage, Kikoine volunteered to fight in the French army, serving until the end of World War I.
In the 1920s, he worked in Burgundy and around Paris. He left La Ruche in 1927 to settle in a workshop at 10 rue de Gentilly in Montrouge. He also had a Parisian address at no.7 rue Brézin in the 14th arrondissement1.
With the outbreak of World War II and the subsequent occupation of France by the Germans, Michel Kikoine and his Jewish family faced deportation to the Nazi death camps. Until the end of the War they stayed near Toulouse. After the Allied liberation of France, he moved back to Paris where his paintings were primarily nudes, autoportraits, and portraits. In 1958, he moved to Cannes on the Mediterranean coast where he returned to landscape painting until his death on 4 November 1968.
Michel Kikoine had his first exhibition in Paris in 1919 after which he exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne. His work was successful enough to provide a reasonable lifestyle for him and his family allowing them to spend summers painting landscapes in the south of France, the most notable of which is his "Paysage Cezannien," inspired by the great Paul Cézanne. He died in Cannes, France.
In 2004, at the university in Tel Aviv, Israel, a new wing in the Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery was dedicated to the memory of Michel Kikoine.