Dimensions: 23.5 x 32.5 cm
signed p.d.: 'Kolnik'
on the reverse an auction sticker
Origin
Le Brech & Associés auction house, Paris, April 2015
private collection, Poland
Biography
Artur Kolnik was a Polish painter of Jewish descent. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1914. In 1931 he moved to Paris, where he settled permanently. He is counted among the representatives of the so-called "Jewish Expressionism" in art - alongside Friedrich Kleinman, Samuel Cygler and Maurycy Appelbaum. From 1932 he belonged to the Association of Jewish Painters and Sculptors in Cracow; in 1933 there was a painter's exhibition at the Jewish Academic House in Cracow. He was mainly involved in printmaking and illustration - a portfolio of his 24 woodcuts, "Sous le chapeau haut de forme," with an introduction by Henri Barbusse, won acclaim and publicity among the public.
