Dimensions: 96 x 146 cm
signed and dated l.d.: 'Jerzy Kossak 1916.'
on the reverse a stamp of Iskra & Karmański painting supplies store from Cracow, on the frame a paper ownership sticker with a description: 'Property | Bolesław Kamiński | of (hardly legible)' and attached paper sticker of Circular Exhibition of Paintings of Krakow Painters Artists
Exhibited
Circular Exhibition of Paintings of Cracow Artists Painters, Cracow, before 1916 (?) (as "From the retreat from near Moscow")
Literature
compare Kazimierz Olszański, Jerzy Kossak, Wroclaw [et al] 1992, pp. 92-93 (ill.), items 55 and 56
Biography
Jerzy Kossak was educated from an early age in the atelier of his grandfather, Juliusz, and his father, Wojciech. In the early 1920s. Jerzy traveled with his father to the manors of Greater Poland, where he portrayed the local landed gentry. Jerzy Kossak's paintings (like those of his grandfather and father) are still very popular today. The artist took up themes close to the longings and sentiments of the Polish viewer, he perpetuated the myth of the Polish legions and the victorious war against the Bolsheviks, he also painted genre scenes with motifs of lancer toil, horses, meetings of soldiers and girls.