Henri Hayden (1883 - 1970) Poland
Watercolor on Paper
Measure 11"in H x 19"in W and 15 1/2"in H x 15 1/2"in W with frame
Known for: Cubist, abstract still life and landscape painting
Name variants: Henryk Hayden
Biography: It is typical that a Polish-born artist, especially one who was a Jew, at the beginning of this century should regard Paris as his natural habitat. Henri Hayden arrived in Paris in 1907, aged 24, and only four years later held his first one-man exhibition. From that point onward, Paris became his home. He was a School of Paris painter, mainly of still life and landscape. Cezanne and Cubism were the classical influences on the young artist. Hayden's career as a whole represents an artist whose periods of significant creativity occurred at the beginning and end of a long professional career. His first important picture, The Chess Players at La Totonde, in the manner of Cezanne, was shown at the Salon des Indépendants in 1914; shortly afterwards he was introduced to Juan Gris, by a fellow Pole, the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. Soon after Hayden began his Cubist period, which lasted between 1916 and 1921. From 1922 his oeuvre took on a more figurative manner, especially in landscape painting, which proved immensely successful with dealers and the public. By 1950 there were signs of a return to a sub-cubist mannerism in his work, and as a result the landscapes and still-lifes of his last 20 years became both more simplified and more definitely composed than the previous period. Never fussy or labored, with an elegant calligraphy, they combine a new richness of color with lyrical melancholy. Meditation and purity of vision mark the painter's last years.
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