Kazimierz Sichulski (1879 Lvov - 1942 there), Annunciation, 1934.

oil, canvas, 95 × 116 cm
Signed and dated l. d.: "Sichulski 1934"

Kazimierz Sichulski repeatedly took up religious themes in his work. He was particularly fond of immortalizing the figure of the Virgin Mary in his works. These were both
large-format works, which are designs for stained glass boxes, triptychs or single paintings made in oil or pastel technique. These compositions very often created in the spirit of
Hutsul folklore, dressing figures in characteristic Hutsul costumes. In the work presented at auction we see the scene of the Annunciation. The scene resounds with an atmosphere of calmness,
harmony, sublimity. This composition differs in form from those already undertaken by the artist in earlier years - there is a clear dialogue with the painting of the Italian Renaissance,
by including fragmentarily depicted arcades and a landscape with a meandering river spreading out in the background. Sichulski has rendered the entire painting in his characteristic
range of brown and green hues - so often found in his Hutsul depictions. Sichulski returned to the scene framed in this way at least once more. The auction painting is dated
1934. In 1936, during an exhibition at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow, the artist presented a work called "Annunciation" with an analogous composition.

Additional image:
Painting by painter Kazimierz Sichulski
"Annunciation" presented at an exhibition at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts
in Krakow, 1936 (source NAC)