Dimensions: 55.7 x 34.3 cm
Signed and dated l.d.: 'Witold Pruszkowski | 1879'.
on the reverse a paper auction sticker
Origin
Agra-Art auction house, December 2014
private collection, Poland
Literature
compare:
Dorota Suchocka, Witold Pruszkowski 1846-1896, catalog of monographic exhibition, National Museum in Poznań, National Museum in Warsaw, Poznań 1992, cat. no. 38, ill. 20, s. 71
Biography
Initially studied in Paris with Tadeusz Górecki. He supplemented his painting studies at the Munich academy (1869 - 1872) and at the Cracow School of Fine Arts (1872-1876), where he was a student of Jan Matejko. He painted portraits, genre scenes, fairy-tale and fantasy paintings drawing on themes from folk beliefs and legends, as well as symbolic compositions inspired by the romantic poetry of Slowacki, Krasinski and Mickiewicz. He is one of the most interesting Polish symbolist painters. His paintings were recalled by a large, monographic exhibition of his works organized in 1992 by the National Museum in Poznań and also exhibited in Warsaw and Cracow.
