Henri Hayden

[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.

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.

[1] One of Hayden's first dealers was Leonce Rosenberg,[1] who organised an exhibition of his works in 1919.

Hayden's most expensive work to date, a group portrait painting titled Les joueurs d'échecs from 1913, sold in 2020 at Christie's London for GBP1.2 million.