Dimensions: 65 x 70 cm
Signed and dated l.d.: 'H. HAYDEN 1909'
other titles: Celebration in Brittany, Maritime Feast in Le Pouldu, Feast in Pouldu
on the reverse an illegible circular stamp, on the painter's loom a paper deposit sticker of the National Museum in Warsaw, on the frame a sticker of a framing workshop
Origins
Palais Galliera, Paris (purchase at auction, December 1962)
private collection, Europe
Galerie Motte, Geneva, (purchase at auction, October 1964)
private collection, Europe
Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, London, (gallery purchase, 2002)
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Henri Hayden. Masters of the École de Paris, Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, September 20-December 31, 2013
Polish painters in Brittany (1890-1939), National Museum in Warsaw, April 25-July 3, 2005
Peintres polonais en Bretagne (1890-1939), Musée Départemental Breton, Quimper, June 25-November 7, 2004
Galerie des Artistes Modernes (Chaîne et Simonson), Paris, 1915
Literature
Henri Hayden. Masters of the École de Paris, exhibition catalog, ed. by Artur Winiarski, Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Warsaw, 2013, cat. no. 3, pp. 11 and 96 (ill. as "Sea Feast at Le Pouldu")
Christophe Zagrodzki, Henri Hayden 1883-1970, exhibition catalog, Bibliotheque Polonais de Paris, Paris 2013, cat. no. 02, p. 62 (il. as "Feast at Pouldu")
Jerzy Malinowski, Barbara Brus-Malinowska, In the circle of the
École de Paris. Jewish Painters from Poland, Warsaw 2007, il. 26
Polish Painters in Brittany (1890-1939), exhibition catalog, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 2005, cat. no. 15, pp. 80, 82-83 (ill. as "Sea Feast in Le Pouldu")
Peintres polonais en Bretagne (1890-1939), exhibition catalog, Musée Départemental Breton, Quimper 2004, p. 53 (ill.)
Leopold Zborowski, Exhibition at the Galerie Modern [Galerie des Artistes Modernes], "Polonia" 1915, no. 12, p. 6 (mentioned as "Celebration in Bretagne")
Biography
Studied in Warsaw at the Academy of Fine Arts and the 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.
