Jacek Malczewski (1854 Radom - 1929 Krakow), Portrait of a man, 1925.

oil, cardboard, 46.5 × 31.5 cm light frame
signed and dated p. d.: "1925 J. Malczewski"

on the reverse a handwritten dedication dated May 8, 1926 and a sticker: ART SALON/ STATIONERY/ ART SUPPLIES.


"While the female models over the many years of Malczewski's mature oeuvre cyclically changed in terms of beauty, in the case of the male models, somehow close to the painter, even if they were also affected by rotation over a long period of time, they consistently present the same type of beauty, and to a large extent the style of clothing in which they appear in the paintings. (...) Malczewski's favorite type of model is a dark-haired man with a breakfasty southern complexion."
(D. Kudelska, "The Duct of Writing and Brush. Intellectual Biography of Jacek Malczewski," Lublin 2008, pp. 763-764)