Ludwik Klimek “Flowers”, 1957
Description
Oil on plywood, signed lower right „L.Klimek 57”.
Framed: 67x59 cm (45x37 cm)
Ludwik Klimek (Skoczów 1912 - 1992 Nice) - Polish artist, painter and illustrator, working in France. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In the spring of 1939 he received a scholarship and went to Paris, where he often went to the Louvre and admired the works of Titian, Goya, Poussin and Rubens. He was a friend of Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse. With the last one he founded the Biennale Internationale d'Art de Menton in 1951, where he exhibited his paintings. He painted almost 3 000 pictures, most of it was sold because of his son who had chronic illness.