Dimensions: 31.5 x 63 cm
signed and dated p.d.: '59 J. Pressmane'
described on the reverse with inventory number: '1579/MR/17' and two auction stickers
Origin
private collection, France
Ader auction house, Paris, October 2017
institutional collection, Poland
Exhibited
Joseph Pressmane. Masters of the École de Paris, Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, May 18-September 28, 2019
Literature
Joseph Pressmane. Masters of École de Paris, exhibition catalog, ed. Artur Winiarski, Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Warsaw 2019, pp. 152-153 (ill.), cat. no. 78
Biography
He was a painter and printmaker of French-Polish origin active in the circle of artists belonging to the École de Paris. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lvov, and later in Warsaw. His first solo exhibition was organized in 1925 in Jerusalem. He left there after completing his art studies. In 1926 he moved permanently to Paris, where he began working for Academie Ranson. His portrait and landscape work is characterized by a particular expression of form and color. In Paris he was noticed early on by the esteemed Polish art dealer and poet Leopold Zborowski, who began to collect the artist's works and became his mentor.
