Dimensions: 66.5 x 54.5 cm
signed and dated on the underside: 'Kasper | Pochwalski | 923'.
signed by the author on the reverse p.g.: 'Kasper | Pochwalski | W kołpaczku' and on the underside: 'Kasper | Pochwalski', paper exhibition sticker of the Society of Polish Artists "Sztuka" in Cracow (transferred on the loom) and a trace of an unpreserved sticker, on the painting loom three paper exhibition stickers: of the Society Zachęta Fine Arts in Warsaw and of the Association of Visual Artists "Zwornik" in Cracow.
Exhibited
Exhibition of the Association of Artists "Zwornik", Cracow, circa 1930
Annual Salon of 1928, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Warsaw, November 24, 1928 - January 10, 1929
Exhibition of the Society of Polish Artists "Art", Cracow, date unknown, 1920s. (?)
Literature
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw for 1928, Warsaw 1929, p. nlb. (44)
Guide No. 39 Salon 1928, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Warsaw 1928, p. 30, cat. no. 237
Biography
He was the nephew of the well-known portraitist Kazimierz Pochwalski. Between 1917 and 1922 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow with Jozef Mehoffer, who considered him his most talented student. At the same time, he studied art history at Jagiellonian University. After receiving a scholarship from the French government, he studied for a year with Maurice Denis at the Académie Ranson in Paris. He exhibited at the TPSP in Krakow, Lviv and Poznan, the Zachęta Gallery and the IPS in Warsaw. In addition, he participated in the exhibitions of the groups "Art" (from 1924), "Jednoróg" and "Zwornik". In 1925 he had a solo exhibition at the TPSP in Cracow, and in 1927 also in Grudziądz and Bydgoszcz. He painted landscapes, architectural views, portraits, still lifes and, less frequently, genre scenes. He also did mural painting, decorating mainly churches of the Cracow diocese (including those in Ciężkowice, Ratoszyn, Myszków).