Jan Stanislawski (1860 Olshana/Ukraine - 1907 Krakow), The sapphire Dnieper with a cloud

oil, cardboard, 18 × 24.8 cm (light passe-partout)
On the back an opinion by Dr. Helena Blum

The artist's tendency to increasingly synthesize form and give symbolic overtones to his representations, "to encapsulate a sense of the whole of nature in a single detail," is evident in his near-impressionistic landscapes painted after 1900, at various times and in changing auras.

"The object of Stanislavsky's interest also becomes the theater of the sky illuminated by the
with the sun's disc, saturated with the purple of the west or draped with dramatically clustered
clouds hanging over fields frozen in silence, the endless Ukrainian steppe,
the wrinkled surface of a river (...). There is a nostalgic expression in Stanislavsky's landscapes
The meanders of the Dnieper, wide-spreading, escaping in a wavy tract far into the lowland landscape
landscape (...) are for the painter an equally symbolically powerful motif as fragments of
of ancient architecture (...)."
Irena Kossowska, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, November 2002