Dimensions: 82 x 54.5 cm
Inscribed on the reverse with numbers: '9 A' and '297' and paper inventory sticker described: '4- | 305 Mak'
sketch for the painting "Return from Catching Crayfish," 1924, National Museum in Warsaw
Origins
From the historical collection of Janina Adamkowa, niece of the artist, Krakow
collection of Leopold Infeld (1898-1968), prominent physicist
collection of the Infeld family
Literature
Władysława Jaworska, Tadeusz Makowski. Life and work, Wroclaw-Warszawa-Krakow 1964, p. 177, cat. no. 389
Tadeusz Makowski, Diary, compiled by. Władysława Jaworska, Warsaw 1961, ill. 48
Biography
Tadeusz Makowski is one of the most outstanding Polish artists of the 1st half of the 20th century. He was a painter, graphic artist and draughtsman. In 1903-08 he studied at the Cracow Academy with Józef Unierzyski, Józef Mehoffer and Jan Stanisławski; at the same time he studied philology at the Jagiellonian University. In 1908, via Munich, he went to Paris, where he settled permanently. From there he traveled to Brittany, Auvergne and the south of France for summer seasons. He also made an artistic trip to Holland and Belgium (1921). In Paris, he was friends with many prominent painters, writers and art dealers. He maintained lively contacts with Polish artists residing in France and was president of the Paris-based "Society of Polish Artists." He exhibited his works at home - in Cracow and Warsaw (from 1907) and Lviv (1910) - and abroad: in Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Budapest and Amsterdam. He painted figural compositions, landscapes, still lifes and portraits, especially of children. Experimenting with cubist painting, he developed his own individual style. With form, color and light, as well as a certain deformation, he built lyrical though sometimes not without a certain irony or derision in his painting compositions.
