Dimensions: 50 x 60 cm
Signed and dated p.d.: 'J. Pressmane 63'
described on the reverse: 'Pressmane | automne | 12F', paper ownership sticker and paper inventory stickers
Origins
private collection, Poland
Biography
He was a painter and printmaker of French-Polish descent active in the circle of artists belonging to the École de Paris. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lviv 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.
