Press article : Collection of artworks by Jan Lebenstein - La Gazette Drouot
Collection of artworks by Jan Lebenstein - La Gazette Drouot
- 12/19/24
- Paintings
A collection never seen before
Following the successful sale of a number of drawings on August 15, the owner of a collection of works by Jan Lebenstein has decided to continue with the dispersal of works that he inherited from his father. His father worked in the world of finance and was a great art lover. He met and became friends with the Polish painter, inviting him to his Paris apartment on Place du Panthéon or his house in the Var. Estimates for these nineteen works range from 100/200€ for lithographs to 20000/30000€ for this 1971 canvas.
Jan Lebenstein (1930-1999) - "Longchamps, 1971"
Oil/acrylic on canvas signed and dated, countersigned, 162,5 x 130 cm
Estimate : 20000/30000€
The collector acquired them all from the artist, with the exception of Figure axiale n° 39 from 1959, valued at 20000/25000€, which he bought in Neuilly-sur-Seine on June 20, 1988 with a view to lending it, along with five others, to the exhibition at the Zacheta National Art Gallery in Warsaw from April 22 to May 22, 1992. This event was an official consecration for the artist. When he arrived in France in 1959, his paintings were marked by abstraction. Committed to the his ‘Axial Figures’ series, in which primary, totemic creatures, sometimes skeletal, sometimes organic, evolve around a central axis. The following decades saw the reappearance of human representations in dark, esoteric compositions, populated by chimerical characters, such as the 1989 Centaur galant, ridden by a skeleton, estimated at 4000/6000€.
DECEMBER MONDAY 30, CANNES. BESCH CANNES AUCTION OVV.
LA GAZETTE DROUOT N° 46 OF DECEMBER 20, 2024 p.88
