Dimensions: 69 x 97.5 cm
Signed and dated p.d.: 'W. Nałęcz | 1913'
on the canvas two paper exhibition stickers of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland in Warsaw
Provenance
Altius auction house, Warsaw, December 2016
DESA Unicum, Warsaw, March 2018
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Salon 1914, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland in Warsaw, December 1914-January 1915 or Spring Salon of Warsaw Artists, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland in Warsaw, May-June 1913
Literature
Salon 1914, exhibition catalog, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland in Warsaw, Warsaw 1914, p. 15, cat. no. 93 (?)
Biography
In 1885-93 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg under Pavel Petrovich Chistiakov and Valery Yakobi, specializing in landscape painting in the studios of Ivan Aivazovsky and Lev Lagorio. He then made scholarship trips to Belgium, Sweden, Norway and England. He also studied for a short time in Düsseldorf. He lived in Paris, and from 1906 in Warsaw. In 1909 he sailed by ship along the Vistula River as far as Danzig to explore the Baltic coast. From then on he devoted his work and social activities to spreading knowledge of the Polish sea and the Pomeranian region. In 1920 he purchased a property near the lighthouse in Rozewie, where he built a villa and studio. He was primarily a landscape painter. He was particularly attracted to views of mountains and the sea. At the beginning of the second decade of the twentieth century, he repeatedly stayed at plein-air painting workshops in Kazimierz Dolny on the Vistula River.
