Jan Ekiert (1909–1993), Untitled, 1953
Oil on cardboard, 15.5 x 21.8 cm
Signed in the lower right corner.
On the reverse: the inscriptions “L’homme mécanique” / “Profil” (alternative titles?), “Ekiert 1953” (date of creation?).
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Jan Ekiert was born in 1909 in Komborna (now in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship). In September 1939, he was taken prisoner and held in POW camps. After the war, he settled in Paris, where he studied, among other places, at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. He was associated with the postwar Polish émigré community in Paris, including the “Kultura” circle. In 1961, he received the “Kultura” Award for the visual arts. His works were frequently exhibited in Parisian galleries and are currently held in private and public collections in France and Poland (including the Museum of Art in Łódź and the National Museum of the Przemysl Region in Przemyśl). He died in Paris in 1993.
