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MAY 2023 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE
Lot 230:
Sigmund Menkes (Polish, American, 1896 – 1986), oil on canvas painting "Still life with flowers." Signed by the artist on the lower right.Note: Born in 1896 in Lvov, Poland, Menkes lived and worked after the First World War in Berlin and Paris, to where he moved in 1923. He emigrated to the United States in 1935, settling in New York City. Menkes studied at the Lvov Higher Institute of Art and the Krakow Academy of Fine Art in Poland. He was a life fellow of the International Insititute of Arts and Letters and a member of the Woodstock Artists Association; the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors (President 1942-43); the National Academy of Design, New York; and the Societe des Independants, Salon d’Automne, and Societe du Salon des Tuilleries in Paris.
Dimensions: 31 1/2 x 23 1/4 in., (80 x 59 cm.)
Condition: Very good, no apparent signs of restoration.
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