Dimensions: 78 x 78 cm
Signed and dated l.d.: 'S. Żukowski | 1934'
Inscribed on the reverse: 'Puszcza Świsłocka | (Białowieska) | S. Żukowski | 1934', on the painter's loom a wax seal and a framing note, on the frame two auction stickers
Origins
MacDougall's auction house, London, May 2012 (gallery sale)
private collection, Poland
Biography
Outstanding landscape painter. From 1892 to 1901 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, including under S. Korovin, A. Archipov and I. Levitan. After his studies, he remained in Russia, where he exhibited, among other things, with the Society of Perovskites (from 1896), and was awarded the title of academician in 1907. From 1923 he lived permanently in Warsaw, where he exhibited many times with the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. While in Russia, the artist usually signed his works in Cyrillic, later in Latin alphabet. Many of his paintings are in Polish museum collections and in museums in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Minsk. Most of his artistic output consists of landscape motifs, but he also painted interiors and portraits.
