Dimensions: 197 x 132 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'LEBENSTEIN 61'
Signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'Jan Lebenstein | figure no 116 | 1961 | format 120F'.
Condition
photographic documentation of the work is in the Chalette Gallery Archives at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Origin
Galerie Lacloche, Paris
Galerie Chalette, New York (until 1962)
Collection of Leonard S. Levine, Cenotah, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 2019
institutional collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, 2020
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
Jan Lebenstein, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 22.09-4.11.1961
Jan Lebenstein, Galerie Chalette, New York, March-April 1962
Literature
Jan Lebenstein, exhibition catalog, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, introduction by Clovis Eyraud, Raymond Cogniat, Paris 1961 (index)
Michel Ragon, Jan Lebenstein - Cimaise: Art et Architecture Actuels, no. 55 (IX-X 1961), p. 58 (ill.).
Jan Lebenstein, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Jean Cassou, Chalette Gallery, New York, 1962, cat. no. 19, pp. 51 (ill.), 69
Biography
Painter and printmaker. Studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Artur Nacht-Samborski. He made his debut at the exhibition "Against War, Against Fascism" at the Warsaw Arsenal in 1955. In 1959, he received the Grand Prix at the First International Biennale of the Young in Paris for his series of paintings Axial Figures. Since then he lived permanently in Paris. In the following years, he drew themes from ancient literature, mythology and the Bible. He created a series devoted to depictions of prehistoric animals. He was associated with the milieu of the Parisian "Kultura" and, among other things, illustrated Gustaw Herling-Grudziński's short stories published there. In 1976 he received the A. Jurzykowski Foundation Award from New York, and in 1987 he received the independent Jan Cybis Award. His works are in the collections of the National Museums in Warsaw, Krakow and Poznan, as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Nationale d'Art Moderne in Paris.
