Soter JAXA-MAŁACHOWSKI (1867-1952), "Barn by the Water," 1921

Watercolor, gouache, cardboard, 25 x 35 cm, signed p.d.: S Jaxa / 1921 On the reverse, author's stamp with title and dimensions in ink: Title Barn by the Water / Size 25 x 35 / Price / Soter Jaxa Małachowski / Address / Kraków ul. Wolska 32, and notes of the framing company in pencil. State of preservation: dr. soiling of the painting in the sky part.

Painter, a prominent marine painter, originally from the eastern borderlands. educated at a drawing school in Odesa, then studied at the Cracow SSP under F. Cynk, I. Jablonski and W. Luszczkiewicz. From 1894 he continued his studies at the Drawing and Painting School in Munich. After returning to Poland, he settled permanently in Cracow, from where he moved to Zakopane for two years. He painted mainly landscapes - seascapes (from the Baltic and Mediterranean Sea - souvenirs from his numerous trips to Italy), views of the Tatra Mountains, nocturnes and backstreets of Cracow, rarely portraits. The most successful were his marine paintings. He painted in oil and watercolor, as well as gouache and pastels. He was a member of TZSP in Warsaw. He participated in many exhibitions in Krakow (here he had several solo exhibitions), Warsaw, Lviv, Lodz, Poznan and Lublin.