Dimensions: 55 x 46 cm
signed and dated l.g.: 'Mondzain | Paris 1920'
described on the painter's loom: 'simon MONDZAIN'.
Origins
collection of Urszula and Piotr Hofman
private collection, Warsaw
DESA Unicum, Warsaw, June 2018
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Simon Mondzain. Masters of the École de Paris, Museum of Chelm Land in Chelm, January 14 - April 30, 2013.
Simon Mondzain. Masters of École de Paris, Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, September 21-December 31, 2012
Literature
Collection of Ursula and Piotr Hofman, collection catalog, Warsaw 2013, p. 17.
Simon Mondzain. Masters of the École de Paris, exhibition catalog, Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, text by Ewa Bobrowska, Warsaw 2012, cat. no. 15, p. 102 (il.)
Biography
Studied art in 1906-08 at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts under the direction of Kazimierz Stabrowski. He continued his studies in 1909-12 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow 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.
