Tadeusz Styka, On the Sunset

55.4 x 70.5cm - oil, cardboard signed l.d.: TADE. STYKA.

On the back l.d. two stickers (one on top of the other): Michell & Kimbel transport company in Paris; on it an exhibition sticker (print, ink): Exposit[ion Internationale des Beaux-Arts | Monte Carlo] | M. [Ta]de. Styka | Address [G]arches, Villa Tade | Titre de l'Ouvrage Sapin du St. Re [...] | Prix 4,000 frs | Etiquette a Coller derriere chaque Oeuvre par [l'Artiste]; in addition, centrally a sticker with the number: 19,392

An ink sketch was created for the painting, which we presented at auction on February 6, 2018, item 44.



♣ a fee will be added to the auctioned price, in addition to other costs, based on the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Law of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite)

Tadeusz Styka (Kielce 1889 - New York 1954) - son of painter Jan and older brother of Adam Styka, already as a child showed extraordinary artistic abilities. His first teacher was his father. Later Tadeusz studied in Paris with Eugene Carriere and Jean-Jacques Henner. From an early age he exhibited a lot - at the Paris Salons and in many cities in France, London, New York, Chicago, Canada and Poland. He often collaborated with his father by making, among other things, sketches for the intended panorama of the Battle of Grunwald. From 1929 he lived in New York, however, keeping his studio in Paris. He was primarily a portrait painter, painting aristocracy, beautiful women and famous people (Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1903), Portrait of Pola Negri, Portrait of Ignacy Jan Paderewski). In addition, he was an excellent animalist painter (Lions at a watering hole). He also painted symbolic scenes, genre scenes and religious paintings; the latter often together with his brother Adam.