Dimensions: 34 x 25.5 cm
On the reverse a paper deposit sticker of the National Museum in Warsaw with the number: '185345', sticker described: 'Krzyżanowska' (crossed out), another paper sticker, number: '306.' and twice described: 'Henryk Hayden', other inscriptions hardly legible
Origins
legacy of Michalina Krzyzanowska (1883-1962)
long-term deposit in National Museum in Warsaw
Polswiss Art auction house, June 2006
DESA Unicum, private sale, March 2013
private collection, Poland
Literature
Christophe Zagrodzki, Henri Hayden 1883-1970, exhibition catalog, Bibliotheque Polonais de Paris, Paris 2013, p. 15 (ill.).
Henri Hayden. Masters of the École de Paris, exhibition catalog, ed. Artur Winiarski, Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Warsaw 2013, p. 27 (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.