Dimensions: 18.9 x 32.5 cm
Inscribed in the hand of the artist's daughter Jadwiga: 'Authenticity [...] study of the late Józef Chełmoński I affirm J.Chełmońska. | Orginał J. Chełmońskiego T. Ziomek St. Straszkeiwicz'.
described on the stretcher l.g.: 'Gutowski' and p.g.: '5 Baraka [?-TM] | 10/XI'.
Origins
the artist's legacy
collection of Dr. Józef Gutowski, Warsaw
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Exhibition of works by Józef Chelmonski. Works from the collections of Maria née Chelmonska Loskowska and Dr. Jozef Gutowski, Hall of the Rev. Jozef Poniatowski Male Gymnasium, Lowicz, June 11-14, 1936
Literature
Catalog of the Exhibition of Works by Józef Chelmonski, Łowicz 1936, item 16, 21 or 22
Biography
In 1867-71 he studied painting at the Drawing Class and at the private studio of Wojciech Gerson in Warsaw. In 1871-74 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was associated with the Polish artistic colony centered around Jozef Brandt and Maksymilian Gierymski. A formative moment for Chelmonski's work was his travels to Podolia and Ukraine (1872 and 1874-75). Until 1887 he lived in Paris, where his paintings were very popular. He then returned to Poland, settling in Kuklówka near Grodzisk Mazowiecki. He was one of the most outstanding Polish landscape painters of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted realistic and atmospheric in character landscapes and genre scenes inspired by Mazovian or borderland nature. Chelmonski's paintings are in the most important public collections in Poland, as well as European and American private collections.
