Bidspirit auction | JANCO, MARCEL. Hassidim. Pen-and-ink and

JANCO, MARCEL. Hassidim. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Initialed in English and dated by the artist lower right. 8 x 10.5 inches (to mat), 20 x 26 cm. Unexamined out of frame. 1941.     Co-founder of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Constructivism, Bucharest-born Marcel Janco (1895-1984) was strongly associated with Surrealism via the close collaboration with his fellow Rumanian-Jewish artist, Tristan Tzara. Anti-Semitic persecution forced Janco to leave Rumania and upon his arrival to the Land of Israel he founded the utopian art colony of Ein Hod. At this stage of his career, Janco abandoned pure abstraction and favored the bold, angular, linear abstract mode of Expressionism, evident in the stylized figures of the present lot.