André Mikhaliovitch LANSKOY, born in Moscow in 1902 and died in 1976, was a French painter of Russian origin. When the 1917 revolution broke out, he joined the White Army in Kiev where he was a refugee.

Lanskoy devoted himself definitively to painting when he arrived in Paris in 1921, where he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Wilhelm Uhde noticed him in 1924. Until 1939, he exhibited in the Netherlands. In Paris, after the war, his painting evolved towards abstraction with a series of gouaches produced between 1938 and 1940. He had great admiration for the works of Klee and Kandinsky

He is one of the last Russian representatives who influenced the last School of Paris.

From gouaches to oils, collages, drawings, book illustrations, tapestries and mosaics, Lanskoy's work is diverse and varied without ever losing its accuracy.

He paints in paste with a rich and generous material. His harmonies are very colourful, sensitive and vibrant.

"I am penetrated throughout by what I deeply love, intoxicated by this violent feeling [...] There is a friend of painting, it is time. André Lanskoy