Works by Jan Lebenstein wanted
Paintings, drawings, prints and watercolours from every period and every series. I buy directly from private owners, with no commission and no auction. Correspondence in English or Polish is equally welcome.
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I collect the work of Jan Lebenstein and buy directly from private owners, including families who inherited a piece. I am especially interested in the axial figures, the bestiary and works on paper.
Oil paintings
All periods: early landscapes, axial figures, the bestiary, late compositions. On canvas or board.
Drawings and watercolours
Ink drawings, watercolours, gouaches. Any size.
Prints and lithographs
Original prints, lithographs, screenprints. Also his illustrations to Animal Farm, the Book of Job, Genesis and the Apocalypse.
The bestiary
Fantastic compositions peopled with “prehistoric” creatures, from the 1960s onwards.
Axial figures
Upright, centrally placed silhouettes of the late 1950s. Every variant, drawn ones included.
Any condition
I take works in any condition, including those needing restoration or without a frame.
Jan Lebenstein
1930–1999He was born on 5 January 1930 in Brześć nad Bugiem (Brest), to a Jewish family. From 1948 to 1954 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Artur Nacht-Samborski. He made his debut in 1955 at the Arsenał exhibition in Warsaw, with nostalgic landscapes of the city's outskirts.
In 1959 he won the Grand Prix at the first Paris Biennale of young artists and settled in France for good. From the axial figures he moved, in the 1960s, to a bestiary drawing on the myths of Assyria, Babylon and Egypt. He illustrated Orwell's Animal Farm and books of the Bible. He died in Kraków on 28 May 1999.
- 1930Born on 5 January in Brześć nad Bugiem.
- 1948–1954Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, in the studio of Artur Nacht-Samborski.
- 1955Debut at the Arsenał: landscapes of the Warsaw outskirts.
- 1959Grand Prix at the first Paris Biennale of young artists; stays in Paris.
- 1960–1965The “Créatures abominables” cycle, the beginning of the bestiary.
- 1981–1998Book of Job (1981), Animal Farm (1985), Genesis (1995), Apocalypse (1998).
- 1992His largest exhibition in Poland, at the Zachęta in Warsaw.
- 1999Dies in Kraków on 28 May.
Lebenstein in books
Direct purchase
I buy directly from owners, with no auction and no gallery in between.
A fair valuation
Prices based on current market data. No pressure.
Complete discretion
Your details and any information about the work stay strictly confidential.