Henri Hayden (1883-1970)

Henri Hayden arrived in Paris in 1907, aged 24, and only four years later held his first one-man exhibition. From that point onward, Paris became his home. In 1914 he was introduced to Juan Gris, by the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. Soon after Hayden began his Cubist period, between 1916 and 1921. Gris led him to the dealer Léonce Rosenberg, and through him to Metziner, Severini, Picasso, and Matisse, all significant influences on the artist. Although Hayden produced a fine series of cubist pictures, the most famous The Three Musicians, now in the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, he never completely adopted the cubist aesthetic.

From 1922 his oeuvre took on a more figurative manner, especially in landscape painting, which proved immensely successful with dealers and the public. His work is held in public and private collections throughout the world including the Tate Gallery, London.

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