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Tadé MAKOWSKI (Oświęcim 1882 – Paris 1932)
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Tadé MAKOWSKI (Oświęcim 1882 – Paris 1932)
See original version (French)
Estimate €10,000 - €15,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Tadé MAKOWSKI (Oświęcim 1882 – Paris 1932)
Landscape with Houses in Normandy
Painted in 1929
Oil on canvas mounted on board
22 x 28 cm
Signed lower right ‘Tadé Makowski’
Inscribed and dated lower left ‘To André Pigelet, with best wishes, 29’
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of André Pigelet
Passed down through the family to the current owner
Private collection, Paris
Tadé Makowski, born Józef Tadeusz Makowski, was a Polish painter, draughtsman, illustrator and engraver of the École de Paris. He was born in 1882 in Oświęcim. After studying philosophy for a year, he studied from 1903 to 1908 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Jan Stanisławski and Józef Mehoffer.
He travelled to Paris in 1908 to continue his training and decided to settle there permanently. He frequented the Cubist painters of Montparnasse, such as Gleizes, Metzinger, Léger, Archipenko, Kickert, Mondrian and Alma. He also became friends with Apollinaire and the poets of the Abbaye de Créteil. At the outbreak of the First World War, the painter travelled to Brittany with Władysław Slewinski. During the interwar period, Makowski visited France. The artist was supported by the art dealer and gallery owner Berthe Weill, who included him in all her exhibitions from 1920 to 1926. He died in 1932 in Paris.
In his early career, Tadé Makowski worked as a landscape painter. Once in Paris, he absorbed the teachings of Puvis de Chavannes and Cézanne. Right up until the 1920s, the painter experimented with numerous artistic styles, notably Cubism, and produced mainly landscapes and still lifes. Le Douanier Rousseau and Marcel Gromaire were sources of inspiration at specific times in his life. When he began travelling around France, the painter produced portraits and scenes of everyday rural life in a naïve realist style. Childhood and the passage of time were recurring themes in his work, as were music, folk festivals and the world of labour. As his style matured, he incorporated a certain simplification of forms and a geometrisation of figures. Makowski created a repertoire of symbolic forms. Children, resembling puppets, often feature in his paintings known as ‘mascarades’. He used them to express time and life, with all its joys and sorrows. The painter combines both lyricism and realism, whether in dark or softer hues.
Makowski took part in the 1913 Salon des Indépendants. From 1920 onwards, he exhibited regularly at Berthe Weil’s gallery. Some of his works are held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, as well as in Poland at the National Museum in Warsaw.
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The painting entitled ‘Landscape with Houses in Normandy’ was given by Tadé Makowski to his friend André Pigelet. Ernest Félix André Pigelet, the brother of Marie Pigelet (born in Gien in 1887, died in Paris in 1957), was a printer in Orléans. A passionate art lover, André Pigelet was closely connected to the circle of artists and writers; he hosted a salon in Orléans and welcomed the literary and artistic figures of his time. Marie Pigelet, André Pigelet’s sister, introduced her friend Tadé Makowski to her brother; a friendship developed between the two men, and André Pigelet frequently put the painter up at his home. This painting was given by the artist to his printer friend during a stay at his home in Orléans.
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