Dimensions: 130 x 88.5 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'Menkes | 1927'
on the painter's loom stamp of the collector
Origin
Million auction house, Paris, November 2012
Exhibited
August Zamoyski. Thinking in Stone, Center for Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Toruń, June 21-September 1, 2024
Literature
New Generation and Classics of Modernity from the Collection of Wojciech Fibak, exhibition catalog, Center for Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, ed. Krzysztof Stanisławski, Anna Kompanowska, Toruń 2024, p. 291 (il.)
On the Track of Perfection. Selected works from the collection of Wojciech Fibak, exhibition catalog, State Art Gallery in Sopot, Sopot 2022, p.43 (il.)
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 group, 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.
