Dimensions: 56.5 x 72.5 cm
signed, dated and inscribed l.d.: 'Leon Kamir | Vevey | 1918'
On the reverse, two paper exhibition stickers of the 1922 International Art Exhibition in Venice, a sticker of the transport company Kimbel & Co. and two customs stickers, described in blue crayon: '(4)'
Origin
private collection, France
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
13th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, April 28-October 28, 1922
Literature
XIIIa Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della città di Venezia, 3rd ed., exhibition catalog, Venice 1922
Biography
Leon Kaufmann - artistic pseudonym Kamir - began his studies at Wojciech Gerson's Drawing Class in Warsaw around 1888. From 1895 to 1897 he studied with S. Hollosy in Munich, and in 1898 at the Academie Julian in Paris. He settled permanently in Paris in 1902, and in 1922 rented a studio in Louveciennes and settled there.He exhibited his works in Warsaw, Poznan, later in Paris, London, Venice, Rome, Milan. He became famous as a portrait and landscape painter. He painted city views, landscape motifs from Brittany and many regions of Europe, visited during his numerous travels - Italy, Hungary, the south of France.
