Miron DUDA (1893-1950), "Fishermen."

oil, cardboard, 30 x 40 cm,
signed l. d.: M. Duda

Painter, student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of Wojciech Weiss (1913-1914 and 1917-1922). During his studies he received honors and commendations. In 1924, his solo exhibition took place in Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery. He spent the years 1924-1938 in Paris, where he exhibited at the Autumn Salon, and in 1927 took part in the inaugural exhibition at the headquarters of the Polish Artists' Union in Paris. After the war, he was, among other things, head of the Department of Culture of the WRN in Warsaw. The artist is the author of a series of paintings depicting the wartime destruction of the capital's environs. At the Exhibition of Recovered Territories in 1949, he presented 41 works in oil, watercolor and drawings.