Description
Oil, cardboard; 29 x 40 cm
On the back two stickers: 1. exhibition from Zacheta, paper, printed, filled in with pen: 17132 Author: p. Fr. Żmurko / Title: Venetian Gondola / Type of work ol / Price...Property of p. Fr. Żmurko / date of posting 26/9 191-2. paper, printed: Jakób Borawski . In Warsaw / Podwal n. street. 12 / Warehouse of antiquities / and works of art / Factory of gilded frames / church and salon works / reparation of works of art
Exhibited painting, described: Franciszek Żmurko, Posthumous Exhibition, TZSP "Zachęta" Warsaw, 1911; listed: Janina Wiercińska, Catalogue of works exhibited at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1860-1914; 1969, p. 436
Asking price 30000
Estimate 40000 - 50000
Auction 209, 29.01.2022
Franciszek ŻMURKO
1859 Lviv - 1910 Warsaw
He began his studies in drawing and painting in Lviv, and then studied under Jan Matejko at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, as well as in Vienna, Rome, and from 1876 to 1880 at the Munich Academy, including under Alexander Wagner. A decorated participant in many exhibitions (including a gold medal for his painting Cleopatra; 1879), he enjoyed critical acclaim and success with the public. He was a member of the Munich Kunstverein. He painted primarily in the academic convention, compositions with ancient, historical, oriental or symbolic themes, in which the anecdotal layer provided an opportunity to depict female nudes. He was also a portraitist, the author of numerous, very popular "headpieces" and nudes.
In the offered work, he was inspired by Wilhelm Kotarbinski's 1881 painting "Venetian Serenade."
