Georges Malkine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georges Malkine

French painter

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1898

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 22-Mar-1970

Profession: actor, painter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Georges Alexandre Malkine (10 October 1898 – 22 March 1970) was the only visual artist named in André Breton’s 1924 Surrealist Manifesto among those who, at the time of its publication, had “performed acts of absolute surrealism." The rest Breton named were for the most part writers, including Louis Aragon, Robert Desnos, and Benjamin Peret.
Malkine's 1926 painting Nuit D'amour was the precursor of the lyrical abstract school of painting. "He has pushed individualism to the point of impertinence! But what art in his expression of the ineffable whenever he took the pains to do so!" — André Breton "Georges Malkine has left his delicate mark on the window of time, made as with a diamond, without altering its transparence, without blurring the view, leaving the purest trace that can only be discerned from a certain angle and in a certain light." — Patrick Waldberg (1970)