Dimensions: 63 x 46 cm
signed p.d.: 'Landau'
on the reverse an inventory sticker
Origin
Besch auction house, Cannes, December 2017
private collection, Poland
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.
