AT THE MARKET Watercolor, paper; 30 x 23 cm (illus. p-p) Signed l.d.: St. Maslowski Stanislaw MASŁOWSKI 1853 Włodawa - 1926 Warsaw He was a student of W.Gerson and A.Kamienski at the Warsaw Drawing Class. After his studies, he lived permanently in Warsaw, from where he went on annual plein-air painting trips, including to Ukraine in 1875-1886. His fascination with the local landscape and folklore caused him to paint many genre paintings with figures of Cossacks at that time. In 1886 he stayed in Munich; from 1900 he traveled several times to Italy and Paris; in 1912 he traveled to Sicily and Tunis. After 1903, he spent a lot of time in Wola Rafałowska, near Warsaw, where this watercolor was probably also painted. In addition to oil painting, he practiced watercolor and reached true mastery in this difficult technique. In his watercolor-painted landscapes - realistic and at the same time decorative - he gave, in his own words, "something of a synthesis of the Polish landscape." Asking price 3750 Estimate 4500 - 500