Signed p.d.: Hayden | 30
On the reverse, on the upper loom strip (in black marker): 200 [in rhombus], p.g.: VI 73; on the right loom strip, stamp with the number 8F referring to the size of the subpainting; on the crossbar of the loom, sticker (print): Henry Hayden | "Lying Nude" | 1930 | PM 791; on the lower loom strip a sticker of an auction house in Warsaw; p.d. stamp with number: 230673.
♣ to the auctioned price, in addition to other costs, a fee will be added, resulting from 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)
Henryk Hayden (Warsaw 1883 - Paris 1970) was one of the most prominent painters of Polish origin associated with the École de Paris milieu. He began his artistic studies at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts; in parallel he also studied at the Warsaw Polytechnic. In 1907 he left for Paris, where he still enrolled in the Académie "La Palette." Since 1908 he often traveled to Brittany, getting in touch with W. Ślewiński there. After 1915, he became associated with the circle of the Parisian artistic avant-garde, including P. Picasso, J. Gris, G. Severini or H. Matisseem. In France he remained permanently. In 1920 he visited his family in Poland, but his ties with the country were quite loose - he only rarely sent paintings to exhibitions. On the other hand, he exhibited a lot in France; from 1909 he regularly took part in the Paris Salons, and also had solo exhibitions. During World War II he stayed in southern France, and it was then that his long-standing friendship with S. Beckett began. He painted landscapes, portraits and still lifes, initially showing connections with the paintings of Slevinsky, and later (1912-21) with the work of Cezanne and Cubism. After 1922, he created realistic portraits and landscapes; towards the end of his life, he returned to Cubist experience.
