Dimensions: 61 x 50 cm
signed l.d.: 'Spiro'
on the reverse a sticker from Galerie Münsterberg with a description of the work in French and a sticker from the Dobiaschofsky auction house in Bern
Origins
Galerie Münsterberg, Basel, 1975
private collection, Switzerland
Dobiaschofsky, 2021
private collection, Poland
Biography
Born in1909 in Warsaw, died in 1994 in Nice. Self-taught French painter, counted among the Surrealists. He grew up in Vienna. In 1942 he made his way to France with his family and settled in Nice, part of the unoccupied part of France. In London, he exhibited his works at L'Arcade Gallery. In 1948 he returned to France and exhibited his works for the first time in Paris at an exhibition of young artists, receiving a prize. It was then that he decided to devote himself exclusively to painting. His paintings, held in the convention of Surrealism, have been exhibited in many painting salons and are in the collections of many museums and private collections.
