Dimensions: 74 x 54 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'Hayden | 31'
Inscribed on the painting loom in the hand of Josette Hayden, the artist's wife: 'Jeune femme au fiche bleu 1931', auction sticker on the loom
Origin
Oger-Blanchet auction house, Paris, May 2019
private collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, May 2020
private collection, Warsaw
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, creating paintings that bordered on figurative and abstract art.