Teodor Axentowicz (1859 Brasov/Romania - 1938 Krakow), Studium

oil, canvas pasted on cardboard, 31 × 21.5 cm (light frame)
Signed p. middle: "TAxentowicz"
on the back a sticker from the artist's posthumous exhibition from the TPSP in Krakow in 1939 with the title of the work and the number "241"

Provenance:
- Tadeusz Tabeau Collection

Exhibited:
- "Teodor Axentowicz, posthumous exhibition", Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow, December 30, 1938 - February 2, 1939

Inscribed:
- "Teodor Axentowicz 1859-1938," catalog of posthumous exhibition, Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow, December 30, 1938 - February 2, 1939, p. 19, item 241

"Axentowicz." The name is like some label of beauty with a subtle harmony of pastel colors. A great card in the history of Polish art. (...) The female head - is the specialty of the master Axentowicz. He painted beauties of the aristocracy and patriciate of Cracow. (...) Axentowicz's airily thrown pastel line selected from the model only what was beautiful and characteristic, melting negative features in a delicate shadow. And always between the figure and the viewer looking at it, she suspended a kind of ethereal veil of sentiment."

M. Janoszanka, "Mention of Axentowicz," in "Culture. Tygodnik literacki, artystyczny i społeczny" 1938, no. 37, p. 7.