Dimensions: 93 x 72 cm
Signature: signed on the reverse: J. Malczewski. 1911, and the manufacturer’s mark: a stamp featuring an anchor and a caduceus; on the stretcher bar, three exhibition labels: from the TPSP in Kraków from 1911, from the TZSP in Warsaw from 1911, and from an exhibition for the Society for the Protection of Jewish Children in Warsaw from 1916.
Provenance
Poland, private collection. On deposit at the Jacek Malczewski Museum in Radom. Agra Art, auction on October 13, 2013, lot 015. Warsaw, private collection (before 1939). Warsaw, collection of Dr. Samuel Goldflam (from ca. 1916). Warsaw, collection of Leon Goldberg (from 1911).
Exhibited
Radom, Jacek Malczewski Museum in Radom, “Jacek Malczewski: Contexts,” September 20, 2024–January 5, 2025. Radom, Jacek Malczewski Museum in Radom, My Soul: The Faces of Women in the Work of Jacek Malczewski, October 4, 2019–March 1, 2020. Warsaw, Hotel Polski, Exhibition in Support of the Society for the Protection of Children of the Jewish Faith, January–February 1916. Warsaw, TZSP, 1911 Salon, December 1911–January 1912. Kraków, TPSP, Permanent Exhibition of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Kraków, May 1911.
Reproduced in
Szymalak-Bugajska, P., Malczewski: Close-ups, Arkady Publishing, Warsaw 2023, pp. 204–205. Szymalak-Bugajska, P., *My Soul: The Faces of Women in the Work of Jacek Malczewski*, Jacek Malczewski Museum in Radom, Radom 2019, p. 4. Owned by Z. K. [ed.], Jacek and Rafał Malczewski, Barbara Towpik-Roszkiewicz, Radom 2014, p. 188.
Bibliography
Catalog of the exhibition in support of the Society for the Protection of W. M. Children [of the Jewish faith], Printed at Długa 29 (Hotel Polski), Warsaw 1916, cat. no. 57, p. 4. Salon 1911. Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland, B. Wierzbicki & Co. Printing Works, Warsaw 1911, cat. no. 151 or 152, unnumbered p. Permanent Exhibition of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Kraków, “Czas” Press, Kraków 1911, cat. no. 134, p. 13.
