Description
Oil, cardboard; 22.5 x 19.5 cm
Signed l. d.: Z. Jasinski / 1924
Asking price 7000
Estimate 10000 - 12000
Zdzisław JASIŃSKI
1863 Warsaw - 1932 Warsaw
He began his study of painting under the tutelage of Wojciech Gerson at the Warsaw Drawing Class. He then studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under professors Leopold Loeffler, Feliks Szynalewski and Florian Cynk, also visiting the studio of Jan Matejko. From 1885 he studied in Munich under Otto Seitz and Alexander Wagner. In 1889, at an academic exhibition, he received an honorable mention for Sick Mother, a painting that was again awarded in 1891 at an international exhibition in Berlin. Shown at many exhibitions, the artist's paintings were awarded several more times with diplomas and medals. After returning to Poland in 1893, the artist settled in Warsaw, joining the current of Polish artistic life. At that time, he was also involved in monumental decorative painting; he was the author of the plafond in the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, polychromes in the cathedral in Włocławek and the collegiate church in Kalisz, paintings in the palace in Białowieża and the palaces of St. Petersburg. In 1897 he traveled to Italy, and from 1904 he lived in his own estate in Przyłęk, before returning to Warsaw in 1910. In 1921 he was one of the co-founders of the "Pro Arte" art association. He painted realistic genre scenes growing out of the tradition of the Munich school, paintings with symbolic and allegorical content, as well as portraits, nudes, flowers and landscapes. After 1900, the tonality of his paintings lightens, fully revealing the artist's great sensitivity to color.
