Simon Segal

Background

Segal was born to Jewish parents in Białystok, then in the Russian Empire, but for centuries part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Education

During World War I his family briefly moved to Tver, where he attended a school.

Career

He painted portraits, animals, landscapes and seascapes and created illustrations and mosaics. After the war, his family returned to Białystok, but soon afterward Segal arrived in Berlin in 1918, where he worked for Spolochi, a journal for Russian expatriates. He organized his first exhibition in 1935 at the Billie-Works gallery in Paris.

From 1946 to 1953, Segal lives in Jobourg, a village near Cherbourg.

From 1953 to his death, Segal lived in Paris. He created illustrations for the Bible (Labergerie, 1957) and the Apocalypse (Michel Kieffer, 1969).

He died in 1969. 1935 — Paris – Billiet-Worms Gallery

1950 — Paris – Drouant-David Gallery

1951 — Toulon

1953-1955 — Paris – Bruno Bassano Gallery

1956 — Albi – Musée Toulouse-Lautrec (retrospective)

1957 — Paris – Bruno Bassano Gallery

1959 — Paris – Musée Bourdelle (mosaics)

1960 — São Paulo – Museum of Modern Arts (mosaics)

1961 — London – Grosvenor Gallery

1963 — Milan – Stendhal Gallery

1964 — Paris – Bruno Bassano Gallery

1968 — Paris – Drouant Gallery

1971 — Brest – Palais des Arts et de la Culture (retrospective)

1972 — Valréas – Château de Simiane (retrospective)

1982 — Paris – Salon de la Rose-Croix (retrospective)

1989 — Paris – Musée du Luxembourg (general retrospective, 160 works)

1990 — Paris – Salon du Dessin & de la Peinture à l"eau (30 works)

1997 — Arcachon (retrospective, 50 works)

1999 — Cherbourg – Musée Thomas Henry, Segal à Louisiana Hague (70 works)

2010 — Białystok – Muzeum Podlaskie, The secret child of Białystok (90 works)

Simon Segal Museum, Aups (Var).

Connections

Friend:

Bruno Bassano