Dimensions: 50.5 x 65.5 cm
Signed, dated and inscribed l.d.: 'Hayden Dieppe 1934'
on the painter's loom, paper sticker indicating the size of the Lefranc subpainting, paper sticker described in pen: 'Le port de (...) | Henri (...) | 205bis Bd (...) | prix 3000' and an oval, hardly legible stamp
Origins
Oger & Blanchet auction house, Paris, October 2019
institutional collection, Warsaw
DESA Unicum, October 2020
private collection, Poland
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.