Henryk Hayden (1883, Warsaw – 1970, Paris), Green Landscape from Sammeron, 1956

oil on canvas, 54 × 73 cm
signed and dated lower left: “Hayden/56”

Provenance:
– Collection of Urszula and Piotr Hofman

Exhibited, cataloged, and reproduced in:
– The Urszula and Piotr Hofman Collection, ed. Urszula Hofman, Warsaw 2013, p. 7
– Szymon Mondzain and the École de Paris. The Polish Avant-Garde in Painting of the Second Half of the 20th Century. The Urszula and Piotr Hofman Collection, Abbots’ Palace – Modern Art Department of the National Museum in Gdańsk, February 21, 2015 – April 22, 2015
– The Urszula and Piotr Hofman Collection, ed. Urszula Hofman, Warsaw 2018, p. 25
– From Boznańska to Fangor. The Collection of Urszula and Piotr Hofman, Regional Museum, Nowy Sącz, March 20, 2020 – August 31, 2020.

“[Among those who] are by no means lacking in museum education, there are traditionalists who do not, however, succumb to the tendency toward archaism; instead, they either follow the latest trends in French art or independently solve problems in painting and sculpture [is Hayden], who most clearly and intelligently draws on the influences of Cézanne and Gauguin, yet [demonstrates] a distinct talent as a composer and complete originality in the decorative harmonization of patches of color […]” (Quoted from “Polish Artists in Paris. An Analogy of Texts on the Polish Artistic Colony Active in Paris from 1900 to 1939,” selected and edited by Anna Wierzbicka, Warsaw 2008, p. 164; Artur Winiarski, “Masters of the École de Paris: Henri Hayden,” Villa La Fleur, Warsaw 2013, p. 41.).