Jan Lebenstein (1930, Brest-Litovsk – 1999, Kraków), *Madame et son personnel*, 1976

gouache, pastel, paper, 98 x 59.5 cm (inside the frame)
signed and dated lower right: “Lebenstein 76”

on the reverse, the artist’s inscription: Lebenstein/“Madame et son personnel” 100 x 60 cm/ gouache and pastel/1976”


Provenance:
- Paris, Artcurial, Art abstrait et contemporain, July 5, 2010, lot 250
- Bogdan Jakubowski Collection
– Urszula and Piotr Hofman Collection

Exhibited, described, and reproduced in:
- The Urszula and Piotr Hofman Collection, ed. Urszula Hofman, Warsaw 2013, p. 104
– Szymon Mondzain and the École de Paris. The Polish Avant-Garde in Painting of the Second Half of the 20th Century. The Urszula and Piotr Hofman Collection, Abbots’ Palace – Modern Art Department
of the National Museum in Gdańsk, February 21, 2015 – April 22, 2015
– The Collection of Urszula and Piotr Hofman, ed. Urszula Hofman, Warsaw 2018, p. 115
– From Boznańska to Fangor. The Urszula and Piotr Hofman Collection, Regional Museum, Nowy Sącz, March 20, 2020 – August 31, 2020.
- “Jan Lebenstein: Painting and Drawing,” an exhibition of works from the collections of Urszula and Piotr Hofman, Bogdan Jakubowski, Wojciech Fibak, and Maria and Marek Pilecki, PGS Sopot, March 13 – August 9, 2020