Szymon Mondzain (1888 Chelm - 1979 Paris), Landscape with a lake / House on the shore of a lake, ca. 1928-1930s

oil, canvas, 60 × 73 cm
Signed l. d.: "Mondzain."

Provenance:
- Collection of Ursula and Piotr Hofman

Exhibited:
- "Simon Mondzain. Masters of the École de Paris," 21.09.2012 - 31.12.2012, Villa La Fleur, Konstancin Jeziorna
- "Simon Mondzain. Masters of École de Paris", 14.01.2013 - 30.04.2013, Museum of Chełm Land, Chełm
- "Simon Mondzain and École de Paris. Polish avant-garde painting of the second half of the 20th century. Collection of Ursula and Piotr Hofman", 22.02.2015-22.04.2015, Abbotsford Palace - Department of Modern Art of the National Museum in Gdansk
- "Between Montmartre and Montparnasse. Works of artists from Polish lands, active in Paris in 1900-1939, from private collections", 24.06.2017-15.10.2017, Silesian Museum, Katowice
Reproduced:
- "Simon Mondzain. Masters of the École de Paris," text: E. Bobrowska, Warsaw 2012, cat. 55, p. 140
- "Collection of Ursula and Piotr Hofman," ed. U. Hofman, Warsaw, 2013, p. 13
- "Between Montmartre and Montparnasse. Works of artists from the Polish lands, active in Paris between 1900 and 1939, from private collections", exhibition catalog, Silesian Museum, 2017, p. 276
- "Collection of Ursula and Piotr Hofman," ed. U. Hofman, Warsaw, 2018, p. 13


"Each landscape by Simon Mondzain testifies to the artist's ferocious struggle to achieve a balance between his inner vision and reality. The result is a dazzling series of light-saturated views (...) faithful to the painterly methods of the Impressionists, he works in the open air. Here he is interested in a fragment of the landscape, which, thanks to its structure, constitutes a unified whole. Such a landscape became a point of reference for him and allowed him to present himself as a colorist. Nature, like a compass, will henceforth indicate the rhythm of his activities." W. George, Simon Mondzain, "L'Amour de l'art." 1923, no. 9, pp. 688-690