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Władysław Ślewiński (1854 Białynin - 1918 Paris), Flower-bed in front of the manor house, ca1905

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Estimations: 42 518 - 63 777 EUR
oil/canvas
Dimensions: 50 x 60 cm
On the reverse of the artist's legacy stamp: 'WŁADYSŁAW ŚLEWIŃSKI | from the legacy | POŚMIERTNEJ', below the signature of the artist's wife: 'E. Ślewińska', inscribed barely legible on the painter's loom, a transport sticker and a sticker with the number: '203'.

Origins
collection of the artist's wife, Eugenia Slevinska (1873-1928), Paris
private collection, France
Thierry-Lannon & Associés auction house, Brest, July 2015
private collection, France
private collection, Poland

Biography
Władysław Ślewiński came from a landed, Mazovian family. In 1875, he began his education at an agricultural school in Radom. He briefly attended Wojciech Gerson's Drawing School in Warsaw, probably at the urging of his relative Jozef Chelmonski. He managed the Pilaszkowice estate in the Lublin region inherited from his mother, which he brought to financial ruin. In the rush of 1888, he left Poland for Paris, escaping the sequester of the Internal Revenue Service. He quickly found his way into the circle of modern French art: he studied at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi, and hung out among the artistic bohemians who gathered at the cremerie Chez Madame Charlotte in Montparnassie. Among his acquaintances were Paul Gauguin, Alphonse Mucha and August Strindberg. At the 1889 Synthetist exhibition at Café Volpini, he became acquainted with the circle and art of Gauguin's disciples. He befriended the artist and in 1889-96 traveled to Pont-Aven in Brittany, joining the ranks of the art colony there. He married the Russian painter Eugenia Shevtsova. From 1896 he lived in Le Pouldu in Brittany. The years 1905-10 mark the artist's stay in Poland: there is an exhibition of his works in Warsaw's Aleksander Krywult Salon, Ślewiński goes to Cracow, stays in Poronin, creating within the local art colony centered around Jan Kasprowicz, and establishes an art school on Polna Street in Warsaw. In 1910 he left Poland and for the rest of his life lived in a house called "castle" in Doëlan, Brittany. Under the influence of Gauguin and the syntheticism of the Pont-Aven school, Ślewiński created a personal painting formula situated within the painting of European Symbolism. In the history of Polish art, his painting is classified as part of Young Poland. Ślewiński practiced almost exclusively oil painting - he created intimate still lifes, portraits, landscapes. Unique in his oeuvre is a series of seascapes from the Breton coast, executed since the 1890s.

Auction
Early Art. 19th Century, Modernism, Interwar. Session I
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Date
08 December 2022 CET/Warsaw
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Estimations
42 518 - 63 777 EUR
Hammer price
48 470 EUR
Hammer price without Byuer's Premium
40 392 EUR
Overbid
127%
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DESA Unicum

Early Art. 19th Century, Modernism, Interwar. Session I
Date
08 December 2022 CET/Warsaw
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