Biography from Odon Wagner Gallery & Odon Wagner Contemporary:
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Choultse was a landscape painter, born in Petrograd, Russia in
1877. He studied painting with Constantin Krighitsky and became
the court painter to Czar Nicholas II. After the Russian Revolution, he
immigrated to Paris, and in 1923 began exhibiting at the Salon des
Artistes Français. Although Choultse continued to paint Russian
scenes whilst in Paris, he also undertook several trips to
Switzerland’s Engadine. He was fascinated with the mountainous
landscape of the area surrounding St. Moritz, especially in the winter.
Critics
wrote that no other artist was ever as adept at transferring the
texture of settled snow to canvas. In his 1979 biography, Memoirs of an Art Dealer, Toronto art dealer G. Blair Laing wrote:
"He
painted spectacular snow scenes in which the light seems to come from
behind the canvas and glow. The critics scorned these pictures as
photographic and called them non-art – but today this style of painting
is called 'magic-realism' and is much admired by critics and museum
people. When I was at university I saw a small exhibition of his
work at Eaton’s and marveled at the technical competence of the artist,
but my professor of aesthetics warned me the pictures were bogus and
would be forgotten in a few years. Today they are more expensive than
ever.
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