Dimensions: 46.5 x 38 cm
signed p.g.: 'Menkes'
on the painter's loom two auction stickers, an ownership sticker with a description of the painting and a sticker with an inventory number, described on the frame with an inventory number: '0322/MR/06'
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, February 1994
private collection, Israel
Matsa auction house, Ramat Gan, Israel, June 2006
institutional 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.