Dimensions: 127 x 76.5 cm
Signed p.d.: 'Menkes'.
On the reverse a paper gallery sticker with the description: 'ARTIST SIGMUND MENKES | TITLE Youthful (Boy with Doves) | MEDIUM oil | No 1590'.
Origins
DESA Unicum, Warsaw, May 2020
private collection, Poland
Literature
compare Sigmund Menkes 1896 - 1986 Riverdale, New York, 1933, item 87 (nlb.).
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.
