Dimensions: 79 x 63.5 cm
signed l.d.: 'Mo'
Inscribed on the reverse: 'Boul. Edgaz Quintet Paris XIVe | Mondzain | 1961'.
Origins
Capsule auction house, New York, February 2020
private collection, Poland
Biography
Studied art in 1906-08 at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts under Kazimierz Stabrowski. He continued his studies in 1909-12 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in the studios of Teodor Axentowicz and Jozef Pankiewicz. He exhibited his works for the first time in 1908 at the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. In 1909 and 1911 he traveled to Paris, where he settled permanently in 1912 and completed his studies in the studio of André Derain. He took plein air trips in Brittany and Spain. He repeatedly participated in the Paris Independent, Autumn and Tuileries Salons. Individual shows of his paintings were held at the Fine Arts Club in Chicago (1920), Galerie Hodebert (1926) and Salon des Tuileries (1931) in Paris. Beginning in 1925, he made numerous visits to Algeria, where he lived through World War II. He returned to Paris in 1965. He painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits and marine scenes.
