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Léon Zack is a Russian painter born in 1892 in Nijni-Novgorod and died in Paris in 1980.
He began his career in Russia, his first painting  lessons were given to him by Jakimchenko, big admirer of the French impressionists.
He exhibited for the first time in 1907  in the Federation of the Muscovites  Painters and studied letters in the faculty of Moscow.
In 1920 he leaved his native Russia. He travelled through Europe before coming to Paris in 1923. He participated in numerous exhibitions, realized numerous decorations for Russian ballets of Boris Romanoff, Michel Strogoff or Prokofiev.
His style is classic, it is likened to the Neo-humanists such as Christian Bérard or Tchélichtev.
Current the 40’s and 50’s  Léon Zack turned to a simplification of the figures and faces which are going to drive him towards a geometric abstraction.
Léon Zack as many artists of the XXth century accomplished cardboards for tapestries.
In 1977 a retrospective of its work, in the museum of modern art took place in Paris.
Léon Zack died on March 30th, 1980.