Zygmunt Menkes (1896 Lviv - 1986 Riverdale), Still life with easel, before 1928.

oil, canvas, 131 × 86 cm
Signed l. middle: "Menkes"

On the reverse:
- damaged sticker of Parisian Galerie d'Art Le Portigue, Boulevard Raspail 99, dated 1928 (with description): " [...] E PORTIQUE 99, Bd Raspail a Pa [...] |Menkes |Nature morte au chevalet |Peinture |No 31"; below: fragment of another sticker with handwritten inscription: 60 p.; on the loom the inscription: "PH 60P MENKES"; illegible circular stamp

Exhibited:
- Individual exhibition of Zygmunt Menkes, Galerie d'art.Le Portigue, Paris. 1928, with cat. no. 31.

"... Musical instruments very often appear in Menkes' compositions. They are natural "models", compositional props, but the predilection for them is not a matter of pure chance. He himself was musical after his mother, played a little, and is said to have said that if he had not become a painter, he would have devoted himself to music. He had a whole collection of old instruments in his attic studio."
Władysława Jaworska, "Zygmunt Menkes. Painter of the École De Paris," in Art History Bulletin 1996, No. 1-2, P. 20 80