sacha zaliouk was a jewish ukrainian artist who embraced and embodied the art world of montparnasse during the interwar period (1918 – 1939).
this blog aims to archive his life, his art and his legacy.
Alice Prin was born in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte d’Or. An illegitimate child, she experienced great hardship while growing up. Her beauty, though, led her to become a life model for artists. She adopted the name Kiki and became known as Kiki de Montparnasse. Kiki was multi-talented, gifted at painting, and she eventually wrote her own memoirs…
‘Journaux de tranchées’, or trench journalism, is exactly that: publications by soldiers locked in the horrors of war. This form of transmitting the misery, violence and loss of a war by those closest to it, was not unique to France, as Britain and Germany had their own publications (source), though France had quite a few…
For months, I have searched for a photograph of Sacha. I found several – saturated in ink or with captions that made it hard to tell where he was standing in the photograph. I believed that the clearest picture of him I might ever find would be the shot of his side profile in Eugene…
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A Study of Sacha Zaliouk 