Description
Ink, pen, watercolor, gouache, paper; 24 x 41.5 cm (p-light)
Signed p.d.: Wacław / Pawliszak
Asking price 10000
Estimate 12000 - 15000
Auction 209, 29.01.2022
Image reproduced in: Juliusz Słowacki, Works, Wanderer edition, Warsaw, 1909
Exhibited, listed: Waclaw Pawliszak, posthumous exhibition, Zacheta, Warsaw, 1905; J. Wiercińska, Catalogue of works exhibited at the Zacheta Society...p. 271
Waclaw PAWLISZAK
1866 Warsaw - 1905 Warsaw
As a child, he studied drawing with Wojciech Gerson at the Warsaw Drawing Class, and as a 14-year-old began studying at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow. A talented boy, he was a favorite student of Jan Matejko. He also studied briefly in Munich with Jozef Brandt and in Paris. He traveled extensively, including to the East, where he "fell in love with fanaticism." He died tragically shot by sculptor Xawery Dunikowski. He painted few portraits and landscapes, and mainly historical and battle paintings from the history of Polish wars in the 17th century. He worked on The Post of Polish Kings, and did illustrations for magazines and books, including Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz and Juliusz Słowacki's Beniowski, as well as the Vienna edition of The Tale from a Thousand and One Nights. There are few works by the artist in Polish museum collections; a larger number are in private collections.
