Dimensions: 58 x 100.5 cm
signed and dated l.d.: 'Jerzy Kossak 1929'.
on the reverse a paper sticker with a description and stamps of the Presidium of the Provincial National Council Department of Culture Provincial Conservator of Monuments and another stamp next to it
Provenance
family collection, Poland (purchased in the Salon desa in Cracow in the 1960s; according to a family account, the painting was temporarily exhibited in the 20th century in one of the art galleries in Chicago).
Biography
Jerzy Kossak was educated from an early age in the studio of his grandfather, Juliusz, and father, Wojciech. In the early 1920s. Jerzy traveled with his father to the manors of Greater Poland, where he portrayed the local landed gentry. Jerzy Kossak's paintings (like those of his grandfather and father) are still very popular today. The artist took up themes close to the longings and sentiments of the Polish viewer, he perpetuated the myth of the Polish legions and the victorious war against the Bolsheviks, he also painted genre scenes with motifs of lancer toil, horses, meetings of soldiers and girls.
