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Simon Mondzain(Szamaj Mondszajn) (Polish, circa 1887/1888-1979)Accueil a l'Inconnu
3 March 2021, 14:00 GMT
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Simon Mondzain (Szamaj Mondszajn) (Polish, circa 1887/1888-1979)
Accueil a l'Inconnu
signed 'Mondzain'(lower left); titled, signed and inscribed with address and dated '1932' ( on the reverse)
oil on canvas
250 x 170cm (98 7/16 x 66 15/16in).
Painted in 1932
signed 'Mondzain'(lower left); titled, signed and inscribed with address and dated '1932' ( on the reverse)
oil on canvas
250 x 170cm (98 7/16 x 66 15/16in).
Painted in 1932
Footnotes
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist's studio.
Exhibited
Jewish Artists of the School of Paris, Artcurial Vienna - Artcurial Brussels - Artcurial Paris, 2015.
Literature
Elzbieta Grabska, Mondzain exhibition catalogue, Polish Institute, Paris, 1999.
Marek Roefler, Artur Winiarski, exhibition catalogue, Les Maîtres de l'École de Paris, Éditions Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland, 2012, p. 52.
Jewish Artists of the school of Paris 1905-1939, Somogy éditions d'Art, Paris, 2015, p. 261.
Simon Mondzain was born near Lublin in Chelm, Poland. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts and the School of Fine arts in Warsaw and, in 1908, at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In 1912, Mondzain moved to Paris where he met among others Kisling, Merkel, Zawadowski, Adolphe Basler, Max Jacob, André Derain and Otton Friesz. During the World War I, he volunteered in the Polish section of the French Foreign Legion, where he was inspired by the life in service. In 1920, he was invited by the Fine Arts Club of Chicago to exhibit his work. Three years later, he acquired the French nationality and became a member of the Salon des Tuileries. During the German Occupation, Mondzain, with his wife and friends such as Albert Marquet and André Gide, settled in Algiers where he welcomed many Polish refugees. In 1944, following the death of Max Jacob in Drancy internment camp, he wrote his memoires: Max Jacob and Montparnasse, which were published in the journal L'Arche. Until the independence of Algeria, Mondzain lived between Paris and Algier.