Dimensions: 61.5 x 74 cm
facsimile of the artist's signature p.d.: 'Jankiel Adler CA'
on the painter's loom, paper gallery sticker Galerie Charles Linhard in Zurich, fragmentarily preserved gallery sticker and auction stickers, inscribed on frame: '33' and a paper sticker of a New York framing studio
Origin
private collection, Europe
Sotheby's, Tel Aviv, May 1990
private collection
Koller, Zurich, June 2016
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Galerie Charles Linhard, Zurich, 1955
Biography
He began his artistic education in Poland and continued it in Yugoslavia in an engraving workshop. Around 1918, he completed his studies in Barmen near Düsseldorf under Gustav Wiethüchter. After returning to Poland, he worked with the "Jung Jidysz" group of Jewish painters and poets in Lodz in the period 1918-20. From 1924 he lived outside the country - in Paris, Düsseldorf, Berlin, in 1929-30 in Majorca and Spain, in the 1930s again in Paris and then in London. He exhibited in Warsaw, Lodz, Wroclaw, London, New York and Edinburgh. Initially he created paintings with themes drawn from Jewish folklore, but later his work was influenced by the achievements of Paul Klee, whom he met in 1933, and Pablo Picasso. He painted still lifes, portraits and figural compositions. He was also an art critic.
