Dimensions: 61 x 50 cm
Signed l.d.: 'HAYDEN'.
on the painter's loom, descriptions and framing notes, a fragmentarily preserved paper exhibition sticker, a trace of an unpreserved paper sticker and an auction sticker
Origins
private collection, France
HVCM auction house, Monte Carlo, January 2021
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Salon d'Automne. De Cézanne à Matisse, Grand Palais, Paris, October 14-November 7, 1983.
Henri Hayden 1883-1970, Galerie Suillerot, Paris, May 14-June 15, 1975
Hayden. Rétrospective 1908-1970, Maison de la culture de Bourges, May 20-July 10, 1970
Hayden, Soixante ans de peinture 1908-1968, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, May 3-June 2, 1968
Literature
Salon d'Automne. De Cézanne à Matisse, exhibition catalog, Grand Palais, Paris, 1983, cat. no. 15.
Hayden. Rétrospective 1908-1970, Maison de la culture de Bourges, Bourges 1970, cat. no. 3.
Jean Selz, Hayden, Geneva, 1962, ill. no. 1
Hayden, Soixante ans de peinture 1908-1968, exhibition catalog, Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, Paris 1968, cat. no. 1.
Biography
Studied in Warsaw at the Academy of Fine Arts and Polytechnic and at the Academie "La Palette" in Paris. He exhibited in Paris at the Salons: Independent, Tuileries and May. He spent a lot of time in the south of France. He had solo exhibitions in renowned galleries in Paris and London. In 1922-53 he painted realistic landscapes and portraits. Toward the end of his life, he drew on his Cubist experiences of his youth to create paintings that bordered on figurative and abstract art.