Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976), View from Gubałówka [1918].

Watercolor on paper pasted on cardboard. Signed p. d.: "Z. STRYJEŃSKA."
Dimensions in st. pp.: 30 x 22 cm; in frame: 55 x 47 cm.
Work framed in decorative gilded frame and passe-partout in cabinet green.
Authenticity of the work and dating consulted with Sviatoslav Lenartovich, an eminent expert on the artist's work.

The offered work, depicting a view from Gubałówka in Zakopane, was probably created in 1918, when Zofia Stryjeńska was staying in Zakopane. From the monograph on the artist, written by Jerzy Warchałowski, we know that she painted quite a number of landscapes during this period, executed in watercolor technique on paper.
The work is an excellent example of early work in the artist's oeuvre. Significant is the technique in which the work was executed - watercolor on paper - a form the artist used more or less until 1920. Later she painted with watercolor sporadically, as a supplement to works created with gouache.
It is worth noting that the presented work depicts a pure landscape - we can find only a few similar works in Zofia Stryjeńska's oeuvre.

Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976) painter, graphic artist and illustrator. She received her artistic education at the Maria Niedzielska School of Fine Arts for Women in Cracow and the School of Fine Arts in Munich. She belonged to the "Rhythm" art group. At the Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925, she decorated the main hall of the Polish pavilion (designed by J. Czajkowski) with six panneaux depicting the ceremonial year in Poland. In later years she prepared, among other things, interior decorations for the passenger ships MS Batory (1934) and MS Piłsudski (1935). After the war, she settled in Geneva, where she died.