Rajmund Kanelba (1897 Warsaw - 1960 London), Girl in a Handkerchief

oil, plywood, 48.5 × 34.5 cm
Signed l. g.: "Kanelba"

"(...) Kanelba belongs to the "young" of this special category (painters reaching their creative maturity in Paris) - he came from Poland with the clear intention of defending his creative independence, and has not for a moment deviated from this principle. He defends two essential elements of his art: his perception of Reality and his style. This is not an easy task, especially in Paris, where the penchant for static harmony inherent in the Latin spirit and reflected in the precise line of drawing does not harmonize with the dynamism, in a certain romantic sense, of the perpetually jittery contour that underlies all of Kanelba's work."
Z. St. Klingsland, La peinture de Kanelba, "Pologne Litteraire" 1932, no. 65-66, p. 4.