Lithograph on paper, signed p.śr. on stone: "J.CHEŁMOŃSKI".
Dimensions in frame: 52x42 cm (34x24 cm)
Provenance: private collection Kraków 1914, private collection Manchester after 1945
Graphic comes from the "Portfolio of the Association of Polish Graphic Artists" published in 1903 in Cracow.
Graphic described in the study by M. Grońska "Graphics in book, portfolio and album" published in Wroclaw in 1994, item 5.
Józef Chełmoński (Boczki near Łowicz 1849 - 1914 Kuklówka) - Polish painter and illustrator and graphic artist. In 1867-71 he studied painting at the Drawing Class and at Wojciech Gerson's private studio 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.
