Dimensions: 46 x 38 cm
Signed and dated l.d.: 'Makowski | 915'.
Origin:
collection of Clotilde Cariou, France
collection of the heirs of Clotilde Cariou, France
private collection, Poland
Literature
Władysława Jaworska, Tadeusz Makowski. Życie i twórczość, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1964, cat. no. 128, p. 325 and pp. 92-93, 98 (mentioned in the text)
Biography
Tadeusz Makowski is one of the most outstanding Polish artists of the 1st half of the 20th century. He was a painter, graphic artist and draughtsman. In 1903-08 he studied at the Cracow Academy with Jozef Unierzyski, Jozef Mehoffer and Jan Stanislawski; at the same time he studied philology at the Jagiellonian University. In 1908, via Munich, he went to Paris, where he settled permanently. From there he traveled to Brittany, Auvergne and the south of France for summer seasons. He also made an artistic trip to Holland and Belgium (1921). In Paris, he was friends with many prominent painters, writers and art dealers. He maintained lively contacts with Polish artists residing in France and was president of the Paris-based "Society of Polish Artists." He exhibited his works at home - in Cracow and Warsaw (from 1907) and Lviv (1910) - and abroad: in Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Budapest and Amsterdam. He painted figural compositions, landscapes, still lifes and portraits, especially of children. Experimenting with cubist painting, he developed his own individual style. With form, color and light, as well as a certain deformation, he built lyrical though sometimes not without a certain irony or derision in his painting compositions.