Dimensions: 73 x 60 cm
signed l.d.: 'Szaman Mondszajn'
On the reverse on the upper loom strip described: 'Mondszain', inventory sticker: 'No 5 Clamart' and auction stickers
Origin
Artcurial auction house, France, December 2007
private collection, France
Millon auction house, France, November 2022
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Simon Mondzain. Masters of the École de Paris, Villa La Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, September-December 2012
Literature
Ewa Bobrowska, Artur Winiarski, Simon Mondzain. Masters of École de Paris, exhibition catalog, Warsaw 2012, cat. no. 5, p. 117 (il.)
Biography
Studied art in 1906-08 at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts under the direction of Kazimierz Stabrowski. He continued his studies in 1909-12 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studios of Teodor Axentowicz and Jozef Pankiewicz. He exhibited his works for the first time in 1908 at the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. In 1909 and 1911 he traveled to Paris, where he settled permanently in 1912 and completed his studies in the studio of André Derain. He took plein air trips in Brittany and Spain. He repeatedly participated in the Paris Independent, Autumn and Tuileries Salons. Individual shows of his paintings were held at the Fine Arts Club in Chicago (1920), Galerie Hodebert (1926) and Salon des Tuileries (1931) in Paris. Beginning in 1925, he made numerous visits to Algeria, where he lived through World War II. He returned to Paris in 1965. He painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits and marine scenes.
