Dimensions: 41 x 51 cm
signed p.g.: 'Kanelba'
described on the reverse: 'The cat's cradle | by | Raymond KANELBA', paper sticker of Hammer Galleries in New York, numerical note, trace of an unpreserved paper inventory sticker, auction sticker and ownership sticker, on frame notes and auction stickers
Origins
Hammer Galleries, New York
The Bradley Family Collection, United States
Hindman Auctions, Chicago, May 2011
Private collection, Europe
Christie's, New York, June 2013
Institutional collection, Warsaw
DESA Unicum, October 2013
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Hammer Galleries, New York
Biography
He was a student of S. Lentz and T. Pruszkowski at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He continued his painting studies at the academy in Vienna and Paris. Since 1926 he alternated between France, England and the USA. In his early works he was quite traditional, in his later period he referred to contemporary French painting. He painted moody, lyrical genre scenes, nudes, flowers, intimate compositions in interiors, and sketchy studies of women and children.
