Dimensions: 15 x 13 x 12 cm
signed on the bottom: 'Lille'
Provenance
Sopot Auction House, October 2023
Biography
A representative of the Surrealist movement during the interwar period and of metaphorical art in the postwar era. He studied medicine in Lviv. In 1918–19, he established contacts with a group of Expressionists centered around the Poznań-based magazine *Zdrój* and began collaborating with the Kraków-based magazine *Formiści*. In 1920, together with the Formists, he exhibited his works in Lviv, Kraków, and Warsaw. In 1921, he left for Berlin. He began his studies at the Bauhaus in Weimar and then returned to Lviv. He worked as an illustrator and set designer, creating set designs for experimental theaters in Lviv. From 1930 onward, he was a member of the “Artes” association as well as the Union of Visual Artists. Lille was involved in the popularization and criticism of art, among other things by hosting radio programs on the subject. He designed sets for Bela Katz’s Lviv ballet, the Vilnius Troupe, and the Lviv Opera. In 1934, he organized the museum of the Jewish Religious Community in Lviv and became its director. In 1937, he moved permanently to Paris. During the occupation, he was active within the Polish resistance movement in France. After the war, he served as president of the Union of Polish Artists in France and was a member of the Société des Peintres-Graveurs.
