Size: 9.5 x 16 cm
On the reverse a paper exhibition sticker of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw and a description in the hand of Jadwiga Chełmońska, the artist's daughter: 'The authenticity of the sketch of my late Father Jozef Chelmonski | I affirm Jadwiga Chelmonska.'
Origins
the artist's legacy
the property of the artist's daughter Jadwiga Chelmonska (1879-1928), after 1914
the collection of Dr. Józef Gutowski (1873-1937), a physician and member of the committee of the TZSP in Warsaw, Warsaw
collection of heirs of dr. Józef Gutowski (?)
DESA Unicum, June 2012
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, July-August 1922
Literature
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw for 1922, Warsaw 1923, p. 5 (not mentioned, only mention of an exhibition of sketches by Chelmonski from the collection of Dr. Jozef Gutowski)
Biography
In 1867-71 he studied painting at the Drawing Class and at the private studio of Wojciech Gerson 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.
