Dimensions: 61 x 52 cm
signed p.g.: 'Kanelba'
described on the painter's loom: 'PLAYING SOLDIERS', two paper inventory stickers described with numbers: '19' (in a circle) and '21' and a fragmentarily preserved paper exhibition sticker from Selected Artists Galleries in New York City
Origin
private collection, United States
Doyle auction house, New York, December 2010
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Posthumous exhibition by the artist (?), Selected Artists Galleries, New York, October 31-November 15, 1961 (?).
Biography
He was a student of S. Lentz and T. Pruszkowski at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He continued his painting studies at the academy in Vienna and Paris. Since 1926 he alternated between France, England and the USA. In his early works he was quite traditional, in his later period he referred to contemporary French painting. He painted moody, lyrical genre scenes, nudes, flowers, intimate compositions in interiors, and sketchy studies of women and children.
