Dimensions: 61 x 73.5 cm
signed l.d.: 'Leopold Gottlieb'.
on the painter's loom auction stickers, a sticker of the framing studio, exhibition stickers on the reverse and a sticker of the Parisian painting supplies store Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet
Origins
Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris
collection of Sam and Ayala Zacks, Toronto
Ayala Zacks Abramov collection, Tel Aviv-Jerusalem
private collection, Israel
Christie's auction house, London, March 2017
private collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, May 2018
private collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, March 2021
institutional collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
A Selection from The Ayala and Sam Zacks Collection. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Paintings and Drawings, The Art Gallery of Toronto, 1956; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, November-December 1956; The Winnipeg Art Gallery, December 1956-January 1957; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February-March 1957; The Vancouver Art Gallery, April-May 1957
Literature
A selection from The Ayala and Sam Zacks Collection. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Paintings and Drawings, exhibition catalog, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto 1956, p. 68, cat. no. 37.
Biography
Outstanding Polish painter, at the same time one of the most interesting representatives of the so-called "Ecole de Paris". A pupil of J. Malczewski and T. Axentowicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, he continued his studies in Munich under Ažbe. In 1904 he worked and exhibited in Paris, with breaks - in 1910 he held a chair of painting in Jerusalem, and between 1914 and 1918 he served in the First Brigade of the Legions, maintaining constant contact with the country. In the 1990s, his work was recalled by exhibitions at Warsaw's National Museum - the collections of Ewa and Wojciech Fibak, Boleslaw and Lina Nawrocki, as well as "Kisling and Friends" and "Paris and Polish Artists1900 - 1918." He was the younger brother of painter Maurycy Gottlieb, born after his death.
