ACORDEONIST WITH A GIRL, 1939 Oil, paper pasted on cardboard; 56 x 41 cm Signed l.d.: H.Plich / 39 Asking price 6000 Estimate 8000 - 9000 Henryk PLICH 1904 Lodz - 1986 He studied intermittently at the Cracow academy from 1924 to 1932, in the first year he was a pupil of Wł. Jarocki, in the second and third year of Wojciech Weiss, in the fourth year of Teodor Axentowicz, and during this time he also went on landscapes with Felicjan Kowarski and Stanisław Kamocki. After graduation, he worked as a draftsman-drawer at the Lodz P.A.S.T. He was constantly creating, which, in addition to his professional work, was an additional source of income. The occupation years he worked in the Lodz Jacquards as a textile designer. After the war, he was a lecturer of drawing and painting at the Teachers' College and a decorator for the city of Lodz. He made a stained-glass window in the hall of the P.R.N. m-Lodz and designed Marshal Roli-Żymierski's mace. He designed occasional decorations, interior decorations for theaters, philharmonics, hotels, cinemas, pharmacies and provided artistic supervision over their execution. He designed a horticultural exhibition in Poznan, which was awarded a gold medal by the Plantation Department of the P.R.N. of the city of Lodz. He had many individual and group exhibitions.