Editing Moïse Kisling (section)

==Career==
[[File:Moïse Kisling, 1913, Nu sur un divan noir, oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm, published in Montjolie, 1914.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Moïse Kisling, 1913, ''Nu sur un divan noir'', oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm, published in Montjoie, 1914]]
Kisling lived and worked in [[Montparnasse]] and as part of its renowned artistic community, he joined an émigré community of Americans, British and Eastern European artists.<ref name=":0" /> Most of the French kept to themselves, although the artistic community was international. In 1911–1912 he spent nearly a year at [[Céret]],{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}} and by 1913, he had moved to [[Bateau-Lavoir]] in [[Montmartre]], where he lived briefly.<ref name=":2" />

Eventually around 1913, he took a home residence and art studio on 3 Rue Joseph-Bara in Montparnasse, however he spent a lot of his time in [[Southern France]] in the 1920s.<ref name=":2" /> Kisling maintained the Paris residence and studio on [[Rue Joseph-Bara]] through World War II, and upon his return after the war it had been ransacked.<ref name=":2" /> The artists [[Jules Pascin]], [[Léopold Zborowski]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Johnson|first=Samuel|date=July 2017|title=Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism, Zborowski|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/libraries-and-research-centers/leonard-lauder-research-center/research/index-of-cubist-art-collectors/zborowski|access-date=15 September 2020|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|quote=A budding friendship with Moïse Kisling, whose rue Joseph Bara address Zborowski shared}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=3 January 2019|title=Jules Pascin (born Julius Mordecaï Pinkas)|url=https://ecoledeparis.org/jules-pascin/|access-date=15 September 2020|website=Bureau d'art Ecole de Paris|language=en-US|quote=Pascin settled at 3 rue Joseph- Bara, where Kisling and Zborowski were already living.}}</ref> and later [[Amedeo Modigliani]] lived in the same building.

He became close friends with many of his contemporaries, including Amedeo Modigliani, who painted a portrait of him in 1916 (in the collection of the [[Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris]]). His style in painting landscapes is similar to that of [[Marc Chagall]]. A master at depicting the female body, his surreal nudes and portraits earned him the widest acclaim.

Kisling volunteered for army service again in 1940 during World War II, although he was 49. When the French Army was discharged after the surrender to the Germans, Kisling emigrated to the United States. He rightly feared for his safety as a Jew in [[occupied France]]. He exhibited in [[New York City]] and [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]. He settled in [[Southern California]], and had his first art exhibition there in 1942.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rvIxAQAAIAAJ|title=California Arts & Architecture|date=1942|publisher=J.D. Entenza|pages=13|language=en}}</ref> The Kisling family lived next door to [[Aldous Huxley]] and his family in Southern California,<ref name=":1" /> where they remained until 1946.

Under the [[Vichy government]], certain critics suggested too many foreigners, especially Jews, were diminishing French traditions.<ref>Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt, ''Defending National Treasures: French Art and Heritage Under Vichy,'' p. 44  (2011) Quote: "..the prominence of foreign Jewish artists such as [[Chaïm Soutine]], [[Michel Kikoine]], and Moïse Kisling. As a result, certain art critics such as [[Camille Mauclair]] claimed that foreign artists were contaminating the French artistic tradition."</ref> Their comments were part of a rise in [[anti-Semitism]] during the German occupation, resulting in French cooperation in the deportation and deaths of tens of thousands of foreign and French Jews in concentration camps. Kisling returned to France after the war and defeat of Germany.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}