Dimensions: 65 x 54 cm
signed p.d.: 'Menkes'
on the painting loom, paper inventory sticker with the description: 'N 4008 Menkes | "Tête de famme" | 15F - 65H x 54C | (Sig a droit en bas)' and a fragment of an unpreserved paper sticker, described on the rafter: 'PH 15F cadre No 8 Con 26', on the crossbar described with numbers: '2074 157 447'
Provenance
Hampel auction house, March 2021
private collection, Poland
Biography
Studied at the Industrial School in Lviv, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He also studied in the studio of Alexander Archipenko in Berlin. In 1923 he went to Paris, where he entered the circle of painters of the Ecole de Paris. He exhibited at the Paris Salons: Autumn, Independent, Tuileries. He was associated with artistic life in Poland. He belonged to the New Generation grouping, and was a member of the Zwornik Association of Artists. He painted landscapes, figural compositions, nudes, portraits, still lifes and scenes of Jewish life. In addition to oil painting, he also created gouaches, watercolors and drawings.
