Representative work by Irène Zurkinden
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Irène Zurkinden

b. 1909, Basel · Based in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1987)

  • Schule für Gestaltung Basel
  • Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris
  • Impressionist Painting
  • Cityscapes
  • Portraiture
  • Fashion Illustration

Irène Zurkinden was a prominent Swiss-French painter of bohemian Paris and Basel street life, celebrated for spontaneous, atmospheric Impressionist cityscapes and close associations with the Surrealist circle of Meret Oppenheim.

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