MICHEL KOROCHANSKY (1866-1925) Winter village

signed ‘M. Korochansky’ (lower left); inscribed ‘Sara Rosenstein’ (on the stretcher, on the reverse) oil on canvas 46 x 55.5 cm Michel Korochansky was a Ukrainian-born French painter and draughtsman. Born in Odessa, he moved to Paris in the 1880s and studied at the Académie Julian under William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. He exhibited regularly in Paris and was a member of the Société des Artistes Français and the Société des Artistes Indépendants. Korochansky was particularly known for his landscapes, rural scenes and portraits.