On the back a sticker from a posthumous exhibition in 1966, Leon Wyczółkowski Museum in Bydgoszcz with the author's name, title and technique of execution and cat. no. 125.
PROVENANCE:
- Private collection, Poland,
- Directly from the artist's heirs.
EXHIBITED:
- Tymon Niesiołowski 1882-1965 Painting. Drawing. Graphics. Sculpture, posthumous exhibition, Leon Wyczółkowski Museum of Bydgoszcz Land, Bydgoszcz 1966.
LITERATURE:
- Janusz Bogucki, Tymon Niesiołowski, Warsaw 1967, p. nlb., il. 20,
- Tymon Niesiołowski (1882-1965). Catalog of a monographic exhibition, Toruń, 2005, cat. no. 429.
Among the main subjects of Tymon Niesiolowski's surviving works are nudes and still lifes with a specific perspective. The artist also painted images of clowns and "misguided knights," such as Don Quixote. He received his artistic education in Lviv and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. From 1919 he belonged to the Formist art movement. He also lived in Vilnius, and from 1945 settled in Torun, where he belonged to the Torun Group art movement. The painter and printmaker created his paintings drawing inspiration from the work of Wladyslaw Slewinski and Paul Gauguin, as well as the Pont-Aven school of French painters centered in the circle. The characteristic features of his paintings are the black contour line and the intense color of the painting similar to the palette used by Henri Matisse. In Tymon Niesiolowski's later work there are echoes of colorism and impressionism, as in the presented canvas Lying Nude, where the artist repeats the well-known canon of showing a woman's body under the figure of Venus lying in a relaxed pose. In 1967, a posthumous exhibition of the artist's works was held at the Bydgoszcz museum. Another show, on the centenary of the painter's birth, was held at the National Museum in Warsaw in 1982. The last presentation of Tymon Niesiolowski's artistic output took place at the District Museum in Torun in 2005.
