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SAM GRANOVSKY [SAMUEL (CHAIM) GRANOVSKY ] (1889-1942) Horse and Cart

Lot 118
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signed ‘S. Granovsky’ (lower right) oil on canvas 27 x 35 cm Samuel (Chaim) Granovsky was born in Yekaterinoslav (today Dnipro, Ukraine), then part of the Russian Empire. He left his hometown to study painting at the Art Academy in Odessa. After completing his military service, he did not return to Odessa but continued his studies in Munich in 1908–09. In 1910, he moved to Paris and settled in Montparnasse, where he worked as a model at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and, to support himself, as a cleaner at Café La Rotonde. A member of L’École de Paris, Granovsky exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants and, from 1912 onwards, at the Salon d’Automne. In the early 1920s, he joined the Cherez Group, closely associated with the Dadaists. During the Second World War, Granovsky remained in Paris but was arrested in July 1942 during the Rafle du Vélodrome d’Hiver, a mass roundup of Jews. Initially interned at Drancy, he was deported to Auschwitz on 22 July, where he was killed.


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