Alexandre Magaram (1894-1938)
A Painter from Odessa
Coming from the misty banks of the Neva, MAGARAM yielded to the enchantment.
He painted Paris with an ardent and sincere faith. Here are its boulevards sunny by a brief thinning, its squares thundering with a crowded crowd, its narrow streets with colorful windows. Here is the Seine, shimmering and light between its tumultuous quays. Here is the workman, the midinette, the press clerk, all Paris finally, fixed in bright colors and bathed in light and joy
