Wojciech WEISS (1875-1950), Painter among the haystacks - painting study: Aneri painting under the haystacks, ca. 1925

oil, canvas; 29.5 x 37.5 cm (light frame);
Signed l. d.: WW;
On the reverse, facsimile of the artist's signature: WW and no. 0771.
This dynamic composition, painted with bold brushstrokes, shows the artist's wife Aneri Irena Weiss painting a landscape. This motif is characteristic of Weiss's art and was even immortalized in a graphic technique. In 1926, a woodcut entitled "Aneri Painting Under the Mounds - A Landscape Painter" was created and attached to the magazine Fine Arts. Hay mounds and mendels of grain particularly inspired the artist. He and his wife wandered through the fields and immortalized on their canvases the beauty of the ripe summer and the bounty of the harvest. For the artist, the harvest season was a kind of mystery of nature, a wonderful season of harvesting its bountiful gifts. He expressed his delight in the poem "Day of the grain" [excerpt]: "Harvest days are going on. The smell of grain, the crunch of scythes and sickles. [................] Rows of mendelas spread out. They bid farewell to the land from which they grew."