National Printing House in Kraków, photographs by P. Józefa Bułhakówna, P. E. Koch, Photographic Studio of the National Museum in Warsaw, Collection of P. W. Grombecka, Warsaw 1936, p. 104 and 28 unnumbered plates, dimensions 22.5 x 29.5 cm, cloth binding with embossing on the front and spine; minor soiling on the cover and wear on the spine; pages clean; plates printed on heavyweight paper.
According to Wikipedia:
Henryk Grombecki (born June 8, 1883, in Warsaw; died January 11, 1933, there) – painter. He worked in easel painting, particularly watercolor, but also in oil painting and printmaking, especially lithography. He specialized mainly in portraits and landscapes.
Biography
Portrait study of the artist’s wife—a charcoal drawing created in Warsaw in 1906
He was born on June 8, 1883, in Warsaw[5][6] Grombecki made the decision to pursue an artistic career in the fall of 1903, when he moved to Kraków and began studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts there. This followed a brief period of informal study (in 1902–1903) at the Warsaw School of Drawing under Professors Kauzik and Badowski—in addition to “independent attempts in the countryside and at home (not counting drawing lessons at the Russian gymnasium, where he reportedly excelled at creating accurate and humorous caricatures)”[7]. While studying at the Kraków Academy, he lived not in the city center but in the Kraków suburb of Dębnik, and later just outside Kraków, in Czerwony Prądnik[8]
Portrait of the Artist’s Father with Thistles—a watercolor painted in Warsaw in 1907
The artist spent the 1903–1904 and 1904–1905 academic years first at the school of Florian Cynk, a longtime professor of drawing and a conscientious teacher, and then in Józef Mehoffer’s painting class. The facts known from his biography attest to his simultaneous, far-reaching independence even during his studies. Just as in Warsaw, in Kraków as well he worked primarily on his own, “on the sidelines and in his own way,” and only occasionally brought his studies to his professors for correction. Despite his individualistic, independent attitude, he received good grades and was even awarded a prize in one of the internal student art competitions[9].
