dry needle,paper, signed .p.d.pencil "Pankiewicz ", size,printed, 17.6 x 26.6 cm. Lit: National Publishing Agency, Jerzy Pawlas, title Jozef Pankiewicz, p.44. Bound work.
Józef Pankiewicz - Polish painter and printmaker, educator. In 1884-1885 he studied at the Warsaw Drawing Class under Wojciech Gerson and Aleksander Kaminski, then together with Władysław Podkowiński he went to St. Petersburg to stay on scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts there in 1885-1886. In 1889 the two artists traveled to Paris. There, his painting Targ na jarzyny na placu za żelazną bramą (1888, realistic, betraying the influence of Alexander Gierymski) was awarded a silver medal at the Universal Exhibition.Having become familiar with the works of the Impressionists upon his return to Warsaw in 1890, he tried to transfer French painting trends to his native soil. Referring to Impressionism Flower Market in front of the Church of St. Magdalene in Paris (1890) met with an unfavorable reception from Polish critics and the public, who advised the painter to visit an ophthalmologist....
