Dimensions: 115 x 73 cm
signed l.d.: 'Menkes'
described on the reverse: 'Menkes | Paris | 9 Campagne Première', circular customs stamp (repeated on the painter's loom), on the painter's loom the stamp of Iskra & Karmanski's supplies store in Cracow, paper sticker of Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet's supplies store, two stickers with descriptions of the painting and an exhibition sticker of Raydon Gallery in New York
Origins
collection of Irene Stern, Riverdale
private collection, United States
private collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, June 2016
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Raydon Gallery, New York, United States, date unknown
Literature
Czesław Czapliński, Collections of Polish Art in America, Warsaw-New York 2005, p. 37 (il.).
Sigmund Menkes 1896-1986, New York 1993 (ed. Lipert Gallery), item 61 (ill.).
Sigmund Menkes 1896-1986, New York 1993, item 44 (ill.).
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, and 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.
