Dimensions: 50 x 61 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'Hayden | 52'
on the frame an ownership sticker with a description of the painting
Origins
Lombrail-Teucquam auction house, Paris, October 2006
private collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, December 2016
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Henri Hayden. Masters of the École de Paris, Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, September 20-December 31, 2013.
Literature
Henri Hayden. Masters of École de Paris, exhibition catalog, ed. Artur Winiarski, Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Warsaw 2013, cat. no. 89, p. 160 (il.)
Biography
Studied in Warsaw at the Academy of Fine Arts and Polytechnic and at the Academie "La Palette" in Paris. He exhibited in Paris at the Salons: Independent, Tuileries and May. He spent a lot of time in the south of France. He had solo exhibitions in renowned galleries in Paris and London. In 1922-53 he painted realistic landscapes and portraits. Toward the end of his life, he drew on his Cubist experiences of his youth to create paintings that bordered on figurative and abstract art.