Apoloniusz Kędzierski (1861 Suchedniów - 1939 Warsaw), On a muddy road, 1890.

oil, duplicated canvas, 65 x 105 cm, signed and dated l.d.: A.Kędzierski / 1890
Inscribed and reproduced:
Apoloniusz Kędzierski 1861-1939 [cat. monographic exhibition] ed. by Stanisław Duszak, Maryla Kowalska, Lublin 1981, ill. 10.

"I seemed to have charmed a world of my own - on the sidelines - both in painting and in phenomena seemingly trivial, but for me - just right interesting."
"Apoloniusz Kedzierski on his painting", in Fine Arts, v. VIII, 1932, p. 7

"Kedzierski could be called a genre painter, since he most often uses as his subject matter everyday scenes from everyday life, taken from the lives of the people in particular, which he observes, after all, perhaps not from the characteristic and moral sides, but rather from the picturesque ones. And its genericity is also not based on the dry presentation of anecdote, on the novelistic juxtaposition of characters and objects in certain definite relations of mutual interconnection, through which such and not other event is told, but falls out of the depiction of this interconnection, which the phenomenon necessarily presents in the direct visual vision. Man or animal appear here not as actors, playing the main roles against the background of the landscape, treated as decorations, and theatrical accessories, necessary for a good arrangement of the stage. But all this is equal and equivalent, as a whole overall color impression. A human being here is only a more or less colorful spot in a congruent complex of tones, composed of more or less intense light values, flooding the entire space covered by the eye at any given moment. But this stain or complex of various stains has its own inner content, its own individual life, it is a part of the soul of the universe."
T. Jaroszyński, Apoloniusz Kędzierski, Sylwetka Artysty, in Tygodnik Ilustrowany, 1907, no. 30, p. 605