Henry Hayden (1883 Warsaw - 1970 Paris), "Woman in a rocking-chair" ("Femme au rocking-chair").

Origins
Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris
Leclere auction house, Paris, March 2017
private collection, Poland

Exhibited
Hayden. Rétrospective 1908-1970, Musée d'Art Moderne, Troyes, June 29-September 26, 1994.
Retrospective 1883-1970, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin, November 10, 1994 - January 22, 1995
Henri Hayden 1883-1970, Musée Thomas-Henry in Cherbourg, June 6-October 12, 1997

Literature
Hayden. Rétrospective 1908-1970, exhibition catalog, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin, Dublin 1994, p. 29 (ill.), cat. no. 62.
Hayden. Rétrospective 1908-1970, exhibition catalog, Musée d'Art Moderne in Troyes, Troyes 1994, p. 29 (ill.), cat. no. 62
Henri Hayden 1883-1970, exhibition catalog, Musée Thomas-Henry in Cherbourg, Cherbourg 1997, p. 31 (ill.), cat. no. 91

Biography
Studied in Warsaw at the Academy of Fine Arts and Polytechnic and at the Academie "La Palette" in Paris. He exhibited in Paris at the Salons: Independent, Tuileries and May. He spent a lot of time in the south of France. He had solo exhibitions in renowned galleries in Paris and London. In 1922-53 he painted realistic landscapes and portraits. Toward the end of his life, he drew on his Cubist experiences of his youth, creating paintings that bordered on figurative and abstract art.