Eugeniusz Zak (1884-1926) Polish Artist

Girl with a Blue Ribbon

Portrait of a Young Woman in a Hat (Jadwiga Zak), 1913

Eugeniusz Zak was born to a family of Polish Jews in Minsk, Belaurus. His family moved to Warsaw when he was a boy. In 1902 Zak went to Paris to study at at the École des Beaux-Arts and later at Académie Colarossi. The artist exhibited at the Autumn Salon and later taught at the Académie La Palette.
The artist rapidly became famous. He was connected with important personalities of Parisian cultural life, including the critics Adolf Basler and André Salmon. Zak worked mainly in France, although he spent time in Poland and Germany.

He was an outstanding exponent of Neo-Classicism and enjoyed links to the Warsaw-based RYTM / RHYTHM group (founded in 1922) as well as the École de Paris.

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1923

Young Smoking a Pipe, 1925

Head of a Woman, 1914

Girl in a Pink Shawl, 1913

Girl in Profile, 1921

Fisherman, 1924

Head of a Young Man in a Pointed Hat, 1922

Self Portrait, 1916

Idyll, 1924

Bathing (Pastoral), 1923

Landscape with a Palace, 1921

Landscape with Seafarers, 1914

Shepherd, 1910

Drinking, 1923

Woman with a Rabbit, 1918

Gypsy witha Gitar, 1921

Self Portrait

1924

Girl in Scarf, 1916