38 - Miron DUDA (Nowy Sącz 1893–Pruszków 1950)

Miron DUDA (Nowy Sącz 1893–Pruszków 1950) Nude with a Basket of Fruit Painted in 1925 Oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm Signed, located, and dated lower right: “M. Duda Paris 925” Miron Duda was born in Nowy Sacz, south of Kraków, in 1893. He studied under Wojciech Weiss at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków from 1913 to 1914 and then from 1917 to 1922, where he met the “Formists.” In 1924, a solo exhibition was dedicated to him at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw. Miron Duda lived in Paris from 1924 to 1938. He exhibited his still lifes, among other works, at the Salon d’Automne. He was particularly interested in the female nude and in depictions of women dressing. E.V