Dimensions: 87.5 x 67.6 cm
signed and dated l.d: 'JOZEF CHEŁMOŃSKI | 1906'
on the canvas a paper exhibition sticker of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Provenance
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Exhibition of works by Józef Chelmonski, The Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Warsaw, July 1927
Literature
Tadeusz Matuszczak, Józef Chełmoński, Cracow 2003, p. 114 (il.)
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw for 1927, Warsaw 1928, p. nlb. (36, as "Sketch for Kosynier")
Guide No. 25 to the exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. Exhibitions of paintings by Wojciech Gerson, Józef Chelmonski, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Warsaw 1927, p. 29, cat. no. 101 (as one of the "Studies and Sketches")
Biography
In 1867-71, he studied painting at the Drawing Class and at Wojciech Gerson's private studio in Warsaw. In 1871-74 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was associated with the Polish artistic colony centered around Jozef Brandt and Maksymilian Gierymski. A formative moment for Chelmonski's work was his travels to Podolia and Ukraine (1872 and 1874-75). Until 1887 he lived in Paris, where his paintings were very popular. He then returned to Poland, settling in Kuklówka near Grodzisk Mazowiecki. He was one of the most outstanding Polish landscape painters of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted realistic and atmospheric in character landscapes and genre scenes inspired by Mazovian or borderland nature. Chelmonski's paintings are in the most important public collections in Poland, as well as European and American private collections.
