Dimensions: 17.9 x 12.9 cm
Signed on board p.d.: 'TM', numbered l.d.: 10; 28.4 x 21.4 cm (sheet)
Very rare print, coming from an unrealized portfolio intended for 15 engravings. The work is so rare that it was unknown to the artist's monographer and author of exhibitions devoted to him, Wladyslawa Jaworska, cf. Wladyslawa Jaworska, Tadeusz Makowski, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 1960, sheet 10, pp. 230-232
Biography
Tadeusz Makowski is one of the most outstanding Polish artists of the 1st half of the 20th century. He was a painter, graphic artist and draughtsman. In 1903-08, he studied at the Cracow Academy with Jozef Unierzyski, Jozef Mehoffer and Jan Stanislawski; at the same time he studied philology at the Jagiellonian University. In 1908, via Munich, he went to Paris, where he settled permanently. From there he traveled to Brittany, Auvergne and the south of France for summer seasons. He also made an artistic trip to Holland and Belgium (1921). In Paris, he was friends with many prominent painters, writers and art dealers. He maintained lively contacts with Polish artists residing in France and was president of the Paris-based "Society of Polish Artists." He exhibited his works at home - in Cracow and Warsaw (from 1907) and Lviv (1910) - and abroad: in Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Budapest and Amsterdam. He painted figural compositions, landscapes, still lifes and portraits, especially of children. Experimenting with cubist painting, he developed his own individual style. With form, color and light, as well as a certain deformation, he built lyrical though sometimes not without a certain irony or derision in his painting compositions.
