Dimensions: 55 x 66 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'Landau | 1936.'
described on the painter's loom: '24', paper gallery sticker, described on frame: '2'
Origins
collection of Moshe Oved (1885-1958), art dealer and collector, London (until about 1945)
collection of Ben Uri Art Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art, London
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Chaïm Soutine and his Contemporaries: from Russia to Paris, Ben Uri Art Gallery, London, October 4-28, 2012.
Landau 1898-1962: Memorial Exhibition, Ben Uri Art Gallery, London, March 4-25, 1964.
Literature
Chaïm Soutine and his Contemporaries: from Russia to Paris, exhibition catalog, ed. by Sarah MacDougall, Ben Uri Art Gallery in London, London 2012, p. 27 (ill. as "Landscape, France")
Jewish Artists. The Ben Uri Collection. Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, ed. by Walter Schwab, Julia Weiner, London 1994, p. 66 (il.).
Landau 1898-1962: Memorial Exhibition, exhibition catalog, Ben Uri Art Gallery, London, London 1964, p. nlb., cat. no. 14 (as "Landscape, Malgarach") or 23 (as "Landscape, Malgarach - Nice").
Biography
He learned the artistic craft at the drawing school of Jakub Kacenbogen in Lodz, then at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Stanislaw Lentz. In 1920 he went to Paris, where he lived in the famous pavilion with studios for artists "La Ruche". On the Seine, he attended classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere and the Académie Colarossi. In the 1920s, he maintained relations with the art community in Poland, exhibiting in Warsaw or Lodz. He lived in Saint-Tropez during World War II, then moved to Nice and Paris before moving to Israel in the 1950s. Landau's paintings are characterized by a broad, saturated color palette and a muted, idyllic convention. The artist's work is dominated by depictions of women, motherhood and bucolic subjects.
