Henri Hayden
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Henri Hayden, born Henryk Hayden (December 24, 1883 – May 12, 1970), was a Polish painter. Born in Warsaw, Hayden lived and worked in Paris.[1] Hayden studied engineering at the Warsaw Polytechnic from 1902 to 1905, while simultaneously pursuing studies at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and eventually moved to France in 1907.[1]
In Paris, he became acquainted with the artists associated with the École de Paris and later raised 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."[2] His first exhibition took place at the Galerie Druet in 1911.[1] One of Hayden's first dealers was Leonce Rosenberg,[1] who organised an exhibition of his works in 1919.[2]