Rajmund Kanelba, GIRL, 1950s.

24,2 x 17,5cm - oil, canvas pasted on cardboard signed p.g.: R.K

On the back an auction sticker Agra-Art from 2010.

The painting comes from the collection of Lisa Hoffman, a close friend of Rajmund Kanelba, journalist and author of the volume of memoirs Fräulein Hoffmans Erzählungen, published by Collection Rolf Heyne in 2009, on the 90th anniversary of her birth. In it, Lisa Hoffman vividly describes the vicissitudes of her life - her cheerful childhood in Germany, her wartime wandering, her arrival in New York, her relationship with writer Oscar Maria Graf, her numerous encounters and friendships with interesting people - artists, actors, writers - whom she interviewed. She also devotes much space to her longtime love and friendship with Rajmund Kanelba. On the cover of the book she includes her portrait painted by the artist.



♣ A fee will be added to the auctioned price in addition to other costs, based on the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Law of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite).

Rajmund Kanelba /Kanelbaum (Warsaw 1897 - London 1960)- began his painting studies in 1918 at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts under Stanislaw Lentz and Tadeusz Pruszkowski.
He then studied in Vienna and Paris, where he settled permanently from 1926, joining the circle of artists of the so-called École de Paris. Starting in 1924, he exhibited a lot at home and abroad, taking part in the Paris Salons and presenting his works in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Berlin, Bordeaux, Brussels, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Florida, among others. During World War II he stayed mainly in England, later living periodically in Paris, London and New York. He painted landscapes, still lifes, nudes and portraits, including, especially characteristic for him, "lyrical in mood, freely and sketchily treated studies of women and children" (SAP). In the 1950s he portrayed, among others, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.