Waclaw PAWLISZAK

BALLADINE
Ink, pen, watercolor, gouache, paper; 24 x 41.5 cm (illus. p-p)
Signed p.d.: Wacław / Pawliszak
Image reproduced in: Juliusz Słowacki, Works, Wanderer Publishing House, Warsaw, 1909.
Exhibited, listed: Waclaw Pawliszak, posthumous exhibition, Zacheta, Warsaw, 1905; J. Wiercińska, Catalogue of works exhibited at the Zacheta Society, p. 271
As a child, he studied drawing with Wojciech Gerson at the Drawing Class in Warsaw, and as a fourteen-year-old began studying at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow. The talented boy was a favorite student of Jan Matejko. He also studied briefly in Munich with Jozef Brandt and in Paris. He traveled extensively, including to the East, where he "fell in love with fanaticism." He died tragically shot by sculptor Xawery Dunikowski. He painted few portraits and landscapes, and mainly historical and battle paintings from the history of Polish wars in the 17th century. He worked on The Post of Polish Kings, and did illustrations for magazines and books, including Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz and Juliusz Słowacki's Beniowski, as well as the Vienna edition of The Tale from a Thousand and One Nights. There are few works by the artist in Polish museum collections, with a larger number in private collections.
Asking price 10000
Estimate 12000 - 15000