Dimensions: 100 x 65 cm
signed l.d.: 'Lebestein' and dated p.d.: '63'
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'Lebenstein | figure no 187 | 1963 | 187 | 1965'.
on the reverse a paper sticker with a description of the work, an exhibition sticker and a stamp: 'Lebenstein | ARCHIVE'.
Provenance
Collection of Zofia Breza
collection of Wojciech Fibak, 1991
private collection, Warsaw
Desa Unicum, 2018
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
Jan Lebenstein, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 25.04-6.05.1964
Jan Lebenstein, National Museum in Wroclaw, 29.04-10.06.1977
Polish painting in the collection of Ewa and Wojciech Fibak, National Museum in Warsaw, 23.05-9.08.1992; National Museum in Poznan, 22.08-25.10.1992
École de Paris: Jewish artists from Poland in the collection of Wojciech Fibak, Palace of Art in Cracow of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts, July-August 1998.
Polish Paris. From Michałowski to Lebenstein. Polish Painting from the Collection of Wojciech Fibak, State Art Gallery in Sopot, 6.07-3.05.1998; Historical Museum in Wroclaw, Old Town Hall, 30.10-31.12.1998; Museum of the History of the City of Lodz, Lodz, February 1999; Gallery of Contemporary Art BWA in Olsztyn, 10.06-26.09.1999.
Polish Paris. École de Paris. Collection of Wojciech Fibak. Exhibition of paintings by Polish and Polish-Jewish artists of the 19th and 20th centuries associated with Paris - from Piotr Michałowski to Jan Lebenstein, National Museum in Szczecin, December 1999-March 2000; Leszno District Museum, 5.05-2.07.2000.
Polish Paris of the 20th Century. From Władysław Ślewiński to Jan Lebenstein from the collection of Wojciech Fibak, State Art Gallery "Zamek" in Poznań, Poznań 17.07.2000-09.2000
Jan Lebenstein. Demons, Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw, April-June 2005; Lublin Museum in Lublin, June-July 2005; National Museum in Poznań, July-September 2005; National Museum in Szczecin, October-November 2005.
Close-up: Jan Lebenstein (1930-1999), Senatorska Gallery, Warsaw, 10.07-6.08.2007.
Jan Lebenstein. Collection of Olga and Wojciech Fibak, Bohema Hotel, Bydgoszcz, 2009.
Literature
Jan Lebenstein, exhibition catalog, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 25.06-5.05.1964
Jan Lebenstein, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Mariusz Hermansdorfer, National Museum in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, 29.04-10.06.1977, cat. no. 14, p. 4
Polish Painting in the Collection of Ewa and Wojciech Fibak, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Warsaw, National Museum in Poznan, Warsaw 1992, p. 266 (ill.).
Polish Paris. From Michałowski to Lebenstein. Polish Paintings from the Collection of Wojciech Fibak, exhibition catalog, State Art Gallery in Sopot, Sopot 1998, p. 130 (ill.)
Polski Paryż - From Michałowski to Lebenstein, Polish painting from the collection of Wojciech Fibak, exhibition catalog, Wrocław Historical Museum, Wrocław 1998, p. 130 (ill.)
Polish Paris. From Michałowski to Lebenstein. Polish Painting from the Collection of Wojciech Fibak, exhibition catalog, Museum of History of the City of Lodz, Lodz 1999, p. 130 (ill.)
Polish Paris. École de Paris. Collection of Wojciech Fibak. Exhibition of paintings by Polish and Polish-Jewish artists of the 19th and 20th centuries associated with Paris - from Piotr Michałowski to Jan Lebenstein, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Szczecin, Szczecin 2000, p. 268 (ill.)
Jan Lebenstein. Demons, exhibition catalog, [ed.] Grażyna Grochowiakowa, Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw, Warsaw 2005, cat. no. 82, p. 131 (ill.)
New paintings. Collection of Olga and Wojciech Fibak, Fibak Gallery, Warsaw 2007, p. 107 (ill.).
Jan Lebenstein. Collection of Olga and Wojciech Fibak, exhibition catalog, Fibak Gallery, Warsaw 2009, p. 4 (il.)
New Paintings. Collection of Olga and Wojciech Fibak, Fibak Gallery, Warsaw 2010, p. 130.
Biography
Painter and graphic artist. Studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Artur Nacht-Samborski's studio. He made his debut at the exhibition "Against War, Against Fascism" at the Warsaw Arsenal in 1955. In 1959 he received the Grand Prix at the First International Biennale of the Young in Paris for his series of paintings Axial Figures. Since then he lived permanently in Paris. In the following years, he drew themes from ancient literature, mythology and the Bible. He created a series devoted to depictions of prehistoric animals. He was associated with the milieu of the Parisian "Kultura" and, among other things, illustrated Gustaw Herling-Grudziński's short stories published there. In 1976 he received the A. Jurzykowski Foundation Award from New York, and in 1987 he received the independent Jan Cybis Award. His works are in the collections of the National Museums in Warsaw, Krakow and Poznan, as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Nationale d'Art Moderne in Paris.
