Roman Kramsztyk (1885 - 1942), Landscape (Fruit Orchard), before 1913

oil, canvas; 65.2 x 92.3 cm;
Signed l. d.: "Kramsztyk";
on the loom, visible fragment of inscription (damaged): "... store...".

Provenance:
Private collection, Poland

Reproduced image:
- "The World" 1913, no. 48, p. 4 (il. cz.-b.).
- "Roman Kramsztyk 1885-1942. monographic exhibition February-March 1997", edited by R. Piątkowska and M. Tarnowska, Jewish Historical Institute - Zachęta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw 1997, p. 177, item 18 (il. cz.-b.) [here painting listed as lost].

Exhibited in Krakow in 1913 and in Lvov a year later, a striking landscape by a prominent turn-of-the-century artist. Kramsztyk referred to French post-impressionism. Landscape themes inspired, for example, by the painter's stays in France and Spain, remained one of the key ones. Painted with extraordinary color intuition, the view of an orchard is reproduced in materials about the artist. The atmospheric composition, saturated with light, shows mastery of painting technique and energetic brush duct.