Henryk Hayden (1883 Warsaw - 1970 Paris), Landscape

oil, canvas, 38 × 52 cm
Signed l. d.: "Hayden"

Exhibited:
- "Szymon Mondzajn and the École de Paris. Polish avant-garde painting of the second half of the 20th century. Collection of Ursula and Piotr Hofman", National Museum Gdansk, Department of Modern Art- Abbots Palace, 21.02 - 22.04. 2015.

Reproduced:
- "Collection of Ursula and Piotr Hofman," Warsaw 2013, p. 29.
- "Collection of Ursula and Piotr Hofman," Warsaw 2018, p. 27.

Between 1921 and 1950 we are dealing with a very talented painter, a keen observer, an artist of great sensitivity. In the paintings, the background and further plans return, the brush duct is quick and efficient, but Cubism and its theories are a thing of the past," Pierre Celice, a friend of the painter, said of Hayden's painting after the artist's departure from the aesthetics of Cubism. (Masters of the Ecole de Paris. Henri Hayden, ed. A. Winiarski, Warsaw 2013, p. 17.) From then on, landscape played a central role in Hayden's work. Taking a break from Cubist style in these compositions, Hayden embraced realistic representations of landscapes, building them up with luminous, flowing color patches. The artist's numerous travels through the towns of southern France (Sanary, Cassis, among others), brought sun-drenched views of towns, or the peaks of buildings of cities and towns blending into the mountainous terrain. Hayden masterfully captured the character and atmosphere of these places.