HELENE BAILLY
Moïse Kisling , France
Cesar Miramontes Campoy dodober@hotm
Galerie HELENE BAILLY is proud to present two monographs on the occasion of Paris Gallery Weekend:
One on Moïse Kisling (1891-1953), a French painter of Polish origin, attached to the Paris School, a great colorist and an emblematic figure in the representation of the nude.
Kisling began his career at the Krakow School of Fine Arts, and encouraged by the influence of Renoir and Cézanne and his teacher Jozef Pankiewicz, who had a studio in Paris, he joined the bohemian artistic life of Montmartre in 1910. He soon made friends with Modigliani and Braque, who were to accompany him in his artistic evolution.
Fascinated by the plastic beauty of women, his female portraits became a key theme in his work. “A beautiful naked girl gives me joy, the desire to love, to be happy…”.
One of the works in this exhibition, Didi (1936), is a case in point. The model’s red hair is intensely contrasted by the acid green of the background, enhancing her porcelain complexion. Here, Kisling affirms his taste for flamboyant colors and serpentine lines made of infinite curves borrowed from Italian Mannerism. His palette is reminiscent of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This nude blends the heritage of the old masters with the movements of his time, confronting modernity and tradition.
The other monograph presented is that of Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973). Considered the greatest genius of the twentieth century, Picasso always drew major inspiration from his female companions, who marked both his life and his work.
One of the works on show is a typical example. In Femme Se Coiffant (1906), the young woman’s face is a supposed portrait of Fernande Olivier, Picasso’s companion and muse from 1904 to 1912. She played a key role in his representations and the evolution of his style, particularly in his treatment of the portrait and the female body: from the end of the Blue Period to the invention of Cubism.
Influenced by Degas, Rodin and Medardo Rosso, Picasso discovered the work of Gauguin and non-Western art through Gertrude Stein. This decisive encounter led him to experiment with a bold stylization of form and volume. In this work, the influence of Gauguin’s sculptures is evident; playing with distortion, he gives her a robust body reminiscent of primitive sculpture, while maintaining a classical pose. The schematized face, however, already heralds Cubism.
Copy 1/10 is part of our collection. Another copy, 9/10, is now in the Musée Picasso, testifying to the importance of these experiments. Our model was given by Picasso in 1968 to the collector Raoul Pellequer, brother of Max Pellequer, who was the artist’s financial advisor for over thirty years, but above all his friend and one of his most important collectors.
We look forward to welcoming you to the gallery to discover these landmark monographs during Paris Gallery Weekend.
Solo show of Moïse Kisling
From May 13rd to June 10th, 2025
The gallery
Founded by Hélène Bailly Marcilhac in 2007, the gallery has been located at 71, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris since 2015.
The gallery is dedicated to defending avant-garde artists from the 19th and 20th centuries.
By tracing the evolution of a theme over the years, it seeks to recontextualize each piece by drawing connections between different generations of artists, artistic movements, and techniques.
Four times a year, the gallery curates monographic or thematic exhibitions aimed at allowing both art enthusiasts and collectors to deepen their understanding of 20th-century artistic creation.
Each of these exhibitions is accompanied by a dedicated catalog, compiling the results of in-depth research conducted within the gallery on each artwork presented, along with explanatory notes written by specialized art historians.
We also collaborate in enriching international collections through sales and loans to institutions such as the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée du Quai Branly, the Fondation de l’Hermitage, the Musée d’Art Moderne, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Singer Laren, and the Palazzo Reale.
As a certified expert accredited by the European Chamber of Art Experts and Advisors, Hélène Bailly Marcilhac is committed to preserving the legacy of artists and upholding an art market where authenticity prevails.
To this end, the Hélène Bailly Gallery publishes Catalogues Raisonnés on artists such as Léon Pourtau and Henri Delavallée and also contributes to the development of other catalogs, including that of Francis Picabia.
In addition to being a member of the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art and the Syndicat National des Antiquaires, Hélène Bailly Marcilhac is the president and co-founder of Matignon Saint-Honoré, an association created in 2024 to promote the art market in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
Gallery artists
Cuno Amiet, Bathus, Pierre Bonnard, Eugène Boudin,Victor Brauner, Bernard Buffet, Rembrandt Bugatti, Alexander Calder, Charles Camoin, Manuel Cargaleiro, Mary Cassatt, Auguste Chabaud, Marc Chagall, Giogio De Chriciro, Henri-Edmond Cross, Edward Cucuel, Salvador Dali, Nicolas de Staël, Edgar Degas, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Maurice Denis, Óscar Dominguez, Hisao Domoto, Albert Dubois-Pillet, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Raoul Dufy, Max Ernst, Maurice Estève, Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita, Sam Francis, Paul Gauguin, Alberto Giacometti, Diego Giacometti, Françoise Gilot, Jean Hélion, Hans Hartung, Jean Hélion, Auguste Herbin, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Moïse Kisling, Frantisek Kupka, Yayoi Kusawa, Claude Lalane, François-Xavier Lalane,Achille Laugé, Marie Laurencin, Henri Laurens, Le Corbusier, Henri Le Sidanier, Fernand Léger, Gustave Loiseau, Maximilien Luce, Charles Macaire, Aristide Maillol, Henri Manguin, Louis Marcousis, Albert Marquet, Henri Martin, Georges Mathieu, Henri Matisse, Jean Metzinger,Joan Miró, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, Emile Othon-Friesz, Jean Peské, Hippolythe Petitjean, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Serge Poliakoff, Odilon Redon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Auguste Rodin, Alberto Savino, Arthur Segal, Paul Sérusier, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Alfred Sisley, Pierre Soulages, Chaïm Soutine, Sam Szafran, Chu Teh-Chun, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Marie Cerminova dite Toyen, Félix Vallotton, Louis Valtat, Kees Van Dongen, Maria Elena Vieira Da Silva, Maurice de Vlaminck, Alexej von Jawlensky, Edouard Vuillard, Zao Wou-Ki, Ossip Zadkine
