ARTHUR MARKOWICZ, SUNDAY, before 1904

Pastel, paper pasted on cardboard; 49 x 65 cm
Signed p.d.: Markowicz Paris
On the reverse an exhibition sticker: Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych w Król. Pol. / No. 5589 (171) / Name of the Author: Markowicz Artur / Type of work pastel / Title: pensive / Dimension / Price or value 500 rb / Property of the author / address Cracow / Warsaw d. 8/21 XI 904.

Exhibited; TPSP, Warsaw, 1904

The finest work by this author to appear on the market in the last 30 years or more. The artist has masterfully rendered the existential inner experiences of the figures. The quality of the painting equals the works of the great masters of the Young Poland period.
Estimate 25000 - 30000
Auction 220, 04.03.2023

Artur MARKOWICZ
1872 Podgórze - 1934 Kraków
Studied at the Cracow School of Fine Arts with J. Matejko, among others, and later at the Munich Academy and in Paris. He traveled to Italy, Vienna, Holland, Belgium and Jerusalem, where he found subjects for his paintings. He painted mainly in pastels, less often in oils - landscapes, portraits, Dutch interiors and, above all, genre scenes from Kazimierz, the Jewish quarter of Krakow. Collections of Artur Markowicz's paintings are in the National Museum and the Historical Museum in Cracow and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw; very many of his works are in private collections in the United States and Israel.