Leon Wyczółkowski. Rare signed lithograph. Pines of Palanga. 1908.
Lithograph; 40 x 54 cm (pl. 50 x 70 cm)
Signed in pencil with monogram: LW. Good condition.
Graphic of one of the most outstanding Polish artists, Leon Wyczółkowski (1852-1936), being a record of the artist's impressions of his stay in Palanga (today Palanga), the most famous resort on the Lithuanian Baltic coast, then owned by the Tyszkiewicz family. It was there that he created paintings and sketches, including those showing a favorite motif of his work - portraits of trees, created under the influence of Japanese art.
Very rare.
Lit. by I. Kossowska, Narodziny polskiej grafiki artystycznej 1897-1917, Krakow 2000, p. 105, illustr. 90.