Dimensions: 61 x 51.5 cm
signed p.d.: 'Kanelba'
inscribed by the author (?) on the reverse: 'PUNCH & JUDY | by | Kanelba' (under the doubled canvas), paper inventory sticker with description on the painter's loom, marking of the framing studio and auction stickers on the frame
Origin
Selected Artists Galleries, New York (ca. 1962)
private collection, United States
Doyle Auction House, New York, May 2012
private collection, Poland
Biography
He was a student of S. Lentz and T. Pruszkowski at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He continued his painting studies at the academy in Vienna and Paris. Since 1926 he alternated between France, England and the USA. In his early works he was quite traditional, in his later period he referred to contemporary French painting. He painted moody, lyrical genre scenes, nudes, flowers, intimate compositions in interiors, and sketchy studies of women and children.