Zofia Stryjeńska (1891- 1976), Krakowiak. 1929 [portfolio "Polish Dances"].

Rotogravure, paper. Signed on fawn p.d.: 'Z. STRYJEŃSKA' and dated l. d.: '1927'. Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm. Small bend p.g. corner.

Graphic comes from the portfolio: Polish dances: 11 multicolored rotogravures / Zofja Stryjeńska ; foreword by [...] Artur Schroeder. [1929]

Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976) painter, graphic artist and illustrator. She received her artistic education at the Maria Niedzielska School of Fine Arts for Women in Cracow and the School of Fine Arts in Munich. She belonged to the "Rhythm" art group. At the Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925, she decorated the main hall of the Polish pavilion (designed by J. Czajkowski) with six panneaux depicting the ceremonial year in Poland. In later years she prepared, among other things, interior decorations for the passenger ships MS Batory (1934) and MS Piłsudski (1935). After the war, she settled in Geneva, where she died.