Boris Taslitzky

Boris Taslitzky was born in Paris to Jewish parents who had emigrated to France from Russia after the failure of the 1905 Russian Revolution.

He began painting at the age of fifteen and attended the academies of Montparnasse, went to the Louvre museum and copied grand masters such as Rubens, Delacroix, Géricault and Courbet.

[2] In 1928, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris studying with Lucien Simon, Jacques Lipchitz and Jean Lurçat for tapestry.

He was captured in June 1940, but managed to escape in August and became involved in the resistance movement with the National Front active during the Occupation of France by Germany.

[10] At the 1951 Salon d'Automne, Riposte, a depiction of striking dockers in Marseille refusing to load weapons destined for the war in Indochina, was removed by the police.