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A French painter of Ukrainian origin born in 1866 in Odessa, Michel Korochansky was a student of Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian. Active in Paris and Montigny-sur-Loing, he exhibited at the Salon and received an honorable mention in 1910.
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Mardoché Léon Kharchansky, known as Michel Korochansky, was born on February 25, 1866, in Odessa. The son of Jacob and Rose Kharchansky, he studied at the Académie Julian under William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. He began exhibiting at the Salon in 1887. In 1893, he married Laëtitia Léontine Noël in Paris, in the presence of the composer Ossip Loew and the engraver Félix Rasumny. A friend of the painter Numa François Gillet, he settled in Montigny-sur-Loing, where his daughter Christiane was born, who would also become a painter. He obtained French nationality in 1906 and received an honorable mention at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1910. Michel Korochansky died on June 26, 1925, in Montigny-sur-Loing.
