Dimensions: 64 x 94 cm (in light of passe-partout)
Signed and dated l.d.: 'W. Skoczylas 1933.'
Origin
Agra-Art, March 2013
private collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
Posthumous exhibition of works by Wladyslaw Skoczylas: Society of Friends of Fine Arts, Cracow, March 1935
Literature
Posthumous exhibition of the works of Władysław Skoczylas: Society of Friends of Fine Arts, edited by Tadeusz Cieślewski, Krakow 1935, item 14, p. 63
Maryla Sitkowska, Władysław Skoczylas (1883-1934), Warsaw 2015, cat. no. VI. 908, p. 306 (il.)
Biography
Educated in Vienna and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Teodor Axentowicz and Leon Wyczółkowski. In Paris, he studied sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle and in Leipzig, at the Academy of Graphic Arts (1912-13). Recognized as the creator of modern Polish woodcut; he also masterfully used watercolor. He exhibited together with the Formists. He was a co-founder of the Association of Artists "Rhythm". In 1922-34 he held the chair of artistic graphics at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, and from 1932 was a professor at the academy. In his work, he readily drew on folk folklore, especially often the Podhale region. Oil paintings in the oeuvre of this artist are a great rarity.