Wladyslaw Jarocki, VIEW FROM THE STAFF'S WINDOW TO THE FLORIAŃ GATE, 1936

40,5 x 61,0 cm - watercolor, gouache, paper glued on cardboard VIEW FROM THE WINDOW OF THE WORKSHOP TO FLORIAN GATE, 1936

gouache, paper glued on cardboard, 40.5 x 61 cm

signed p.d.: Wład Jarocki 1936



Provenance: collection of Bożena and Ryszard Kruk, Warsaw.



Image exhibited and reproduced:

- Kraków Kruków, exhibition catalog, District Museum in Nowy Sącz, 12 March - 31 July 2022, cat. no. 41.



In 1921 the artist was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Eventually a studio and living room were put at our disposal. Wladek inherited the studio from no one in particular, as from Matejko and Fałat," Anna Kasprowicz-Jarocka wrote in her memoirs (after: Z. Weiss, Wladyslaw Jarocki [exhibition cat.], Municipal Art Gallery in Zakopane, ASP Kraków, 2015, p. 233). The painting shows a view of the Florian Gate from the windows of the artist's professorial studio.



♣ 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 Wyczółkowski. 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 Polytechnic University and 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; in 1924-1934 he was the chief editor of the magazine "Fine Arts", and 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.