WARSAW - Golcz. Portrait of a woman, early 20th c., (handwritten signature, on verso signed), cardboard, on verso handwritten annotation by the woman's grandmother; photo b/w.

WARSAW - Golcz. Portrait of a woman, early 20th century, (handwritten signature, on verso signed), cardboard, on verso handwritten annotation by the woman's grandmother; photo b/w, three large cracks, minor soiling, st. db; dimensions approx. 60x100 mm.

Jadwiga Golcz (1866-1936) - co-founder of the Warsaw Photographic Society. Her atelier was located on Erevanska Street, and later at the Bristol Hotel. She was driven to bankruptcy by her attempt to establish the first photographic school in 1910, with Rev. Wlodzimierz Kirchner.