Lot: 9481
Date of sale: 1. Sat Apr 2023
Alchimowicz, Kazimierz. 1840 Dziembrowo - 1916 Warsaw. Sheherazade telling a story. 1902. oil/
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Alchimowicz, Kazimierz. 1840 Dziembrowo – 1916 Warsaw. Sheherazade telling a story. 1902. oil/canvas, canvas inscribed on verso in Polish Composed and begun by Prof. Wojciech Gerson and completed in 1902 by Kazimierz Alchimowiez [Skomponwany i zaczety pzez s. p. Prof. Wojciecha Gersona a dokonczony przezb Kazimierza Alchimowieza w roku 1902], remnants of a Warsaw exhibition label on verso on stretcher, 93.5 x 62.5 cm, framed 109.5 x 76 cm.- The renowned Polish painter Wojchiech Gerson (1831-1901) was a professor at the Warsaw Academy of Art from 1872-1896 and at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art from 1878. He influenced a whole generation of neo-romantic Polish genre and landscape painters during the Russian occupation. Among his students from 1869 was Casimir Alchimowicz, who is considered one of the last Romantics of Polish painting.
Category: Fine art
