Author: Zofia Stryjeńska
Title: Prządka (Family Idyll) (1950s).
Technique: oil, gouache, canvas (fixed on wooden board)
Dimensions: 68.5 x 96.5 cm
Dimensions with frame: 77 cm x 105.5 cm
Signed p.d.: "Z. STRYJENSKA"
Visible cracks and paint loss (locally along the right edge of the painting, in the part of the bodice and skirt of the spinner).
PROVENANCE:
- private collection, Poland;
- private collection, Pennsylvania;
- private collection (acquired as a gift circa 1960).
The painting has an expert opinion on the work of Zofia Stryjeńska.
Excerpts from the opinion:
"In 1947 the artist left Poland forever. Being cut off from the pre-war artistic community and, more importantly, from the domestic public, she had to search for a new audience for her work. Creating in difficult housing conditions in Paris, Stryjeńska abandoned her painting technique - gouache on paper - almost entirely and began using canvas substrates. [...]
The reviewed painting in general repeats the composition of "Prządka" [from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw] with simultaneous changes in the details of the figure's clothing, accessories and movement. Perhaps the shape of the composition was influenced by the person who ordered the painting, hence the addition of the motif of a stream in the background, known from numerous pre-war paintings. [...]
The color scheme of the painting is characteristic of Stryjeńska's paintings of the 1950s, with dim greens and rusty browns turning to red (the hem of the skirt)."
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