Etching, aquatint, ribbed paper; plate print 200 x 230 mm; not signed. Graphic from the collection of the artist-painter Waclaw Zawadowski.
Frankowska (Fredericka Frankowska, née Biederman) studied painting in Paris and moved to Warsaw in 1904. After the outbreak of World War I, she returned to Paris, where she began studying at the Académie de la Palette; there she met Konstanty Brandl. She maintained lively contacts with the circle of Parisian artists, and participated in the Autumn Salons. Lit.: Catalog of the exhibition "Temps de paix- temp de guerre. Les artistes polonaise a Paris 1900-1918, item 3.
The subject of the work is classically Parisian: barges on the Seine, thus an everyday, urban motif, but at the same time very "painterly-graphic" - with water, reflections, the line of the wharf and silhouettes of boats. In the technique of etching with aquatint, such a motif gives the artist a good field to play between linear drawing (contour, construction of forms) and soft tonal stain (air, mist, light on water).
