Henryk Hayden (1883 Warsaw - 1970 Paris), Still life with bottle and pipe, circa 1920.

gouache, paper, 23 × 32 cm
Signed p. d.: "Hayden"

Exhibited and reproduced:
"Henri Hayden, Masters of the Ecole de Paris", Villa la Fleur exhibition, Konstancin 2013. Artur Winiarski "Henri Hayden, Masters of the Ecole de Paris" [exhibition catalog] Warsaw 2013, cat. no.: 29, p. 114

"More than a year after the outbreak of the war, Hayden's painting evolved in a remarkably logical way towards pure Cubism. When he became one of the members of the movement, which was in 1916, Cubism was already an established direction with an analytical phase behind it. The period of Hayden's painterly explorations from 1912-1914 produced paintings that can hardly be described as merely inspired by Cæzanne. The artist was already operating with formal means corresponding to the parallel work of the Cubists. Joining this narrow group became possible for him thanks to his acquaintance with the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, who then introduced him to Juan Gris. The latter, in turn, introduced the Warsaw-born artist to the Cubist marshal Leonce Rosenberg, who at the time ran a gallery at 19, rue de La Bau me (named L'Effort Vloderne after the war). The acquaintance with Rosenberg resulted in the signing of a contract, which placed Hayden in the close circle of Cubist artists, which included: Picasso, Braque, Leger, Gris, Metzinger, Severini."
(Artur Winiarski "Henri Hayden, Masters of the Ecole de Paris", exhibition catalog, Villa la Fleur, Warsaw 2013, p. 49.)