Landscape painting of village; oil on board; framed; lower right corner signed and attr. Henri Hayden (1883-1970), Polish-Jewish Cubist artist; back with collector's note of artist; 10.5 inches x 13.5 inches. Henri Hayden, born Henryk Hayden (December 24, 1883 – May 12, 1970), was a Polish-Jewish painter. Hayden studied engineering at the Warsaw Polytechnic from 1902-5, while simultaneously pursuing studies at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and eventually moved to France in 1907. In Paris, he became acquainted with the artists associated with the Ecole de Paris (School of Paris) and later rose to prominence as a Cubist painter. Hayden said that "I only absorbed Cubism in 1915, after having swallowed and digested all of French painting in a few years. This rapid absorption led me, in a spirit of creative synthesis, without even realising, to Picasso and Braque's experimentation at the time." His first exhibition took place at the Galerie Druet in 1911. A work titled Personnage Cubiste from 1919 sold at Sotheby's New York for $329,000 USD in 2013. Hayden's most expensive work to date, a Cubist painting titled Fille assise au bouquet de fleurs, 1919, sold in 2011 at Sotheby's Paris for $655,390 USD.(http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henri-hayden-1255). PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate