Dimensions: 140.5 x 96 cm
Signed and dated l.m.: 'JMalczewski | 1909'
other historical titles: Source, At the Source, Narcissus
on the loom and on the back of the frame paper exhibition stickers and notes
The painting will be included, by permission of the owner, in the exhibition "Jacek Malczewski. Contexts", Jacek Malczewski Museum in Radom, September 20, 2024 - January 5, 2025.
Origins
DESA Unicum, 2010 (private sale)
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Jacek Malczewski Romantic, National Museum in Cracow, February 18 - July 31, 2022
Great art is like the ocean deep. Paintings by Jacek Malczewski, Nadwiślańskie Museum in Kazimierz Dolny, April 23 - July 22, 2018
The Malczewski family - the figure of a son, National Museum in Szczecin, June 8 - July 23, 2017
Metaphors and Spaces. Paintings by Jacek and Rafał Malczewski, Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola, October 22 - November 27, 2011.
To the glory of the artist. Jacek Malczewski, Rafal Malczewski, Municipal Art Gallery in Zakopane, August 12-October 2, 2011
Jacek and Rafał Malczewski, Jacek Malczewski Museum in Radom, March 25-September 4, 2011.
Literature
Paulina Szymalak-Bugajska, Malczewski. Approaches, Warsaw 2023, pp. 128, 129 (ill.)
Ryszard Jeremi Kluszczyński, Jacek Malczewski 1854-1929, Kraków 2022, p. 27 (il.).
Urszula Kozakowska-Zaucha, Jacek Malczewski Romantic, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow 2022, p. 149 (ill.)
Beata Malgorzata Wolska, Malczewski - the figure of a son, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Szczecin, Szczecin 2017, cat. no. II.5, p. 56 (il.).
Jacek and Rafał Malczewscy, concept and editing by Zofia Katarzyna Posiadała, Radom 2014, p. 189 (il.).
Jacek and Rafał Malczewski" in 2011 at the Jacek Malczewski Museum in Radom
Włodzimierz Kalicki, Malczewski at the source, "Ale Historia" 2012, no. 35, pp. 8-9 (ill.)
Anna Król, Metaphors and spaces. Painting of Jacek and Rafał Malczewski, exhibition catalog, Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola, Stalowa Wola 2011, cat. no. 19, p. 35 (il.)
Adam Brincken, Tomasz Opaliński, To the glory of the artist. Jacek Malczewski, Rafał Malczewski, exhibition catalog, Municipal Art Gallery in Zakopane, Zakopane 2011, p. 27 (il.), p. 64-65 (il.)
Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Jacek Malczewski. Life and work, Krakow 2008, p. 51 (il.)
Jadwiga Puciata-Pawłowska, Jacek Malczewski, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1968, pp. 160-161, p. 163 (ill. 106).
First Forty Years of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts 1861-1900, exhibition catalog, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Warsaw 1939, p. nlb. (il.)
reproductions of the painting: Jacek Malczewski, At the Source, archival photograph, before 1939, photo by Stanisława Janczewska, National Museum in Warsaw and rotogravure of the National Printing House in Cracow
Jacek Malczewski. 16 reproductions, introduction by Wilhelm Mitarski, Warsaw 1922, plate 4.
Biography
In 1872-75 and 1877-79 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow, among others with Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Jan Matejko, and in 1876-77 with Henri Ernest Lehman at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. The artist's formation was influenced by numerous trips to Paris, Munich, Vienna, Italy, Greece and Turkey. An important source of inspiration for Malczewski was native folklore, Polish literature and history, as well as biblical and mythological tradition. He constantly took up patriotic and messianic themes, existential themes, autobiographical themes and themes concerning the dilemmas of artistic creation. Considered the most outstanding representative of Polish Symbolist painting, he was also famous as an outstanding educator. He taught painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (1896-1900 and 1910-1921), and served as its rector in 1912-1914. In 1897 he became a founding member of the Society of Polish Artists "Art". Malczewski's work was repeatedly presented abroad, appreciated and awarded, including medals at international exhibitions in Munich (1892), Berlin (1891) and Paris (1900).
