Dimensions: 117 x 99 cm
Signed p.d.: 'Menkes'
signed on the reverse: 'Menkes', on the painting loom a paper sticker of Passedoit Gallery in New York, a paper sticker of the Paris warehouse with painting materials Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet with a customs stamp and a sticker described with the number: '22', on the loom and on the frame notes, on the frame auction stickers, a paper inventory sticker and a paper gallery sticker
Origin
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (gift of Arthur Hoppock Hearn Memorial Fund, 1950)
private collection, United States
private collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, September 2019
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, 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.
