A Polish painter born in Chelm, Seweryn Szrajer belonged to the Paris school.
He studied art in Warsaw and then left for Germany at the end of the First World War. He left Germany in 1933 and settled in Paris, where he took part in several exhibitions. A fighter in the ranks of the French army in 1939-1940, he took refuge in the south of France after the German invasion.
He died in Paris in 1947, after his only son, Armand, a painter, died in 1943 in an extermination camp.
Signed lower right; inscription "S. Szrajer 5 rue de l'ancienne comédie Paris VI" on the back.
Good condition - small lack of paint, see pictures.