Adrian GŁĘBOCKI, ALEGORY OF SPRING

Oil, canvas; 115 x 154 cm
Signed p.d.: Adrian Głębocki
A painting of museum rank. Such high-class works by this artist are unparalleled on the market.
Adrian GŁĘBOCKI
1833 Panki - 1905 Warsaw
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer and pedagogue; studied at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Ksawery Kaniewski and Rafał Hadziewicz from 1850-1857. After his studies, he worked in a theater painting shop under A. Sachchetti. From 1863 to 1873 he lived in Czestochowa, where he worked as a drawing teacher at a junior high school. In 1873 he settled in Warsaw, teaching drawing at the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, in gymnasiums and at the real school, and also gave private lessons. He collaborated with "Kłosy", "Tygodnik Ilustrowanym", "Biesiada Literacka" and other Warsaw magazines, posting his drawings in them, including - of great iconographic value - depictions of old historic buildings, now often no longer in existence. He wrote articles on art, and published a book titled "Patterns of Children's Toys for Cutting from Paper" (1875). Among his paintings are religious paintings painted mostly for churches, portraits, genre and genre-historical scenes. He was the author of cycles of drawings based on the lives of saints (e.g. "St. Eustace the Martyr," "St. Mary Magdalene," "Glory of Mary"). Other cycles include, among others, "Polish Legends." He also made the "Album of Jasna Góra." The artist's paintings can be found, among others, in the National Museum in Warsaw and Cracow, and in numerous churches.
Estimate 60000 - 70000
Auction 220, 04.03.2023