Dimensions: 54 x 65 cm
signed and dated l.d.: 'Tadé | Makowski | 30'
Signed on the reverse: 'Tadé | MAK | OW | SK | I.' and dated and described: 'Enfants | 1930 | Paris', on the painter's loom a sticker with the description
Origins
collection of Jean Aron, art dealer and collector of Tadeusz Makowski paintings, Paris
private collection, France
private collection, Great Britain (purchased at auction around 1950)
private collection, Europe
Exhibited
Exposition de quelques oeuvres de Tadé Makowski, Galerie Jeanne Castel, Paris, June 6-18, 1935
Literature
Władysława Jaworska, Tadeusz Makowski, Cracow 1999, p. 28 (il.).
Władysława Jaworska, Tadeusz Makowski. Polish painter in Paris, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków-Gdańsk 1976, p. 48 (ill.), cat. no. 72
Exposition de quelques oeuvres de Tadé Makowski, exhibition catalog, Galerie Jeanne Castel, Paris 1935, cat. no. 11
Biography
Tadeusz Makowski is one of the most outstanding Polish artists of the 1st half of the 20th century. He was a painter, graphic artist and draughtsman. In 1903-08 he studied at the Cracow Academy with Józef Unierzyski, Józef Mehoffer and Jan Stanisławski; at the same time he studied philology at the Jagiellonian University. In 1908, via Munich, he went to Paris, where he settled permanently. From there he traveled to Brittany, Auvergne and the south of France for summer seasons. He also made an artistic trip to Holland and Belgium (1921). In Paris, he was friends with many prominent painters, writers and art dealers. He maintained lively contacts with Polish artists residing in France and was president of the Paris-based "Society of Polish Artists." He exhibited his works at home - in Cracow and Warsaw (from 1907) and Lviv (1910) - and abroad: in Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Budapest and Amsterdam. He painted figural compositions, landscapes, still lifes and portraits, especially of children. Experimenting with cubist painting, he developed his own individual style. With form, color and light, as well as a certain deformation, he built lyrical though sometimes not without a certain irony or derision in his painting compositions.
