Maria GIŻBERT-STUDNICKA, Portrait of a Man, sketch

oil, cardboard, 32 x 38 cm, signed p.d.: Giżbert.

Initially taking private painting lessons, she studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris from 1895. She made artistic trips to Italy, Belgium, Denmark and Brittany. She lived and exhibited in Cracow, Warsaw and Lviv. The painter's work oscillates between Young Poland tendencies, Symbolism and French Impressionism. She designed Art Nouveau jewelry - a buckle of her idea with a pair of dragons set with opals is in the Mazovian Museum in Plock.