Wladyslaw Jarocki, STUDIUM GÓRALA IV, before 1914

70.0 x 70.3cm - oil, cardboard signed l.d.: Wlad. Jarocki

On the reverse:

- l.g. sticker of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts

(stamp, print, ink): 25920 Author Wladyslaw Jarocki | Title Studyum górala IV. Type of work oil | Price 250 Ownership Date of submission 14/II 1914;

- next to sticker (print, ink): [...] Sztuk [Pięknych] w Częstoc[h]owie.| No 3 | Author Jar[oc]ki Władysław | Address [Kra]ków - Romanowicza 9 | Title of work Studyum górala IV | Price rbl 250 | Address where the work is to be sent back after the Exhibition is completed;

- Below the sticker (print): T.Z.S.P. | 11 | 1914.



In March 1914, an exhibition of Jarocki's paintings took place in Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery. One of the works presented at it was the above Study of a Highlander IV.



♣ 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 Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite).

After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture at the Lviv Polytechnic, Wladyslaw Jarocki studied - in 1902-1906 - at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow under Jozef Mehoffer and Leon Wyczolkowski. In 1906, he supplemented his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris. Since 1904, together with Fryderyk Pautsch
and Kazimierz Sichulski, he made numerous trips to the Hutsul region, Podolia and Ukraine. He traveled to Crimea and in 1907 to the Caucasus. In 1911 and 1912 he was in Italy as a grantee of the Austrian Ministry of Education. After 1911, he constantly traveled to the Podhale region to Chocholow, Witow and Poronin. In 1915-1916 he served in the Austrian army. After the war, in 1920-1921, he taught drawing courses at the Technical University and at the State School of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry in Lviv. In 1921 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he later served as dean of the faculty of painting and sculpture, and pro-rector in 1933-1935. From 1909 he belonged to the Society of Polish Artists "Art", and from 1910 was a member of the Vienna "Secession". In the interwar period, he was one of the most prominent animators of Polish artistic life; from 1924 to 1934 he was the chief editor of the magazine "Fine Arts", 1927-1934 he was president of the Cracow Society of Friends of Fine Arts. He exhibited a lot, organized shows of Polish art abroad, including at the XII Venice Biennale in 1902, TOOSPO exhibitions, exhibitions at the Carnegie Institute in the USA. He painted landscapes, portraits and, above all, genre scenes inspired by the folklore of the Hutsul region
and Podhale. In these compositions, distinguished by decorativeness of form and color, he referred both to the Young Poland, Cracow school of decorative painting and to folk ornamentation and glass painting. He was also involved in printmaking, illustration and theater stage design.