Stanislav Eleszkiewicz, YOUNG DANTE

oil, paper pasted on fiberboard, 36.0 x 24 cm

Signed p.d.: SE

On the reverse:

- sticker: 10 - LE JEUNE DANTE;

- On the so-called "back" centrally a sticker (typescript): 19 S. Eleszkiewicz | "Clown's Portrait" | 75.00;

- below sticker (print, black marker): MIECZYSŁAW LURCZYŃSKI [crossed out] | (1907-1992) [crossed out] | POSK GALLERY COLLECTION | Polish Social & Cultural Association | 238-246 King Street | London W6 ORF ENGLAND | 152;

- below stamp (seal, black marker): MIECZYSŁAW LURCZYŃSKI [deleted]| POSK 238-246 KING STREET | LONDON W6 ORF ENGLAND | TITLE ELESZKIEWICZ | MEDIUM | REG No 152;

- next to the stamp of a Parisian painting supplies store.

♣ to the auctioned price, in addition to other costs, will be added a fee resulting from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Law of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite).

Stanislav Eleshkevich (Chutovo near Poltava 1900 - Paris 1963) - painter, draughtsman, designer of mosaics and stained glass windows - studied at the School of Fine Arts in Mirgorod since 1914. In 1918 he joined the army, and, seriously wounded, was hospitalized for six months. From 1919 to 1921 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. Then he was in Naples and Rome, and in 1923 he settled permanently in Paris and exhibited many times in Parisian galleries. He painted in oil, gouache and tempera, and enjoyed using pastels. He created expressive genre scenes, portraits and landscapes. Many of his works are in private collections in Paris and the United States.