Dimensions: 17.3 x 13.4 cm
Signed p.d.: 'Marcoussis'
Origin
collection of the artist's daughter
private collection, Paris
Artcurial auction house, Paris, May 2017
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Louis Marcoussis, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Engravings 1910-1940, Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1960.
Marcoussis, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, July-October 1964.
Literature
Louis Marcoussis, Gemalde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Gravuren 1910-1940, exhibition catalog, Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1960, cat. no. 50, n.p. (dated 1930)
Marcoussis, exhibition catalog, Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, July-October 1964, cat. no. 113, p. 35.
J. Lafranchis, Marcoussis: Sa vie, son oeuvre, Catalogue complet des peintures, fixés sur verre, aquarelles, dessins, gravures, Paris, 1961, cat. no. D. 78, s. 310
Biography
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Jan Stanislawski and Jozef Mehoffer. In 1903 he went to Paris, where he continued his studies at the Académie Julian under Jules Lefebvre. There he became associated with the École de Paris community.