Stanislaw Czajkowski (1878 Warsaw - 1954 Sandomierz), Return from the fair (Podhale)

oil, canvas, 47 x 61 cm
signature p.d.: STANISŁAW CZAJKOWSKI
on the loom inventory number: St. Cz./ inv. 341
on the back stickers: 1) exhibition (print, ink): OWNERSHIP [crossed out, top: EXHIBITION OF OKRÓGÓN MUSEUM | IN SANDOMIERZ | AUTHOR | TITLE "Painting by Stanislaw
Czajkowski" 1981; paper sticker with handwritten description: STANISŁAW CZAJKOWSKI/Returning from the Fair" (Podhale)/45.5 × 61 cm, oil, canvas/ Exhibition at the Sandomierz Museum, 1958/ Exhibition at the Radom Museum, 1958.

Exhibited:
"Painting by Stanislaw Czajkowski", Sandomierz District Museum, 1981.

Attached to the painting is an expert opinion by Ms. Katarzyna Posiadała, 2004.



"Thinking about the essence of Czajkowski's individuality and his separateness from the seemingly similar many of our artists, mainly landscape painters, we come to the conclusion that this essence is sincerity that expresses itself in the speech of painting extremely simple and pure. Tchaikovsky's long-time studies earned him the ease and fluency of expressing his impressions, extremely rich, drawn directly from nature. From its treasury, which is open to Tchaikovsky, the artist absorbs into himself the beauty of its riches. He dwells as if hypnotized by the charm of autumn's golds, the emeralds of summer, the sapphires of the heavens, the longing of the breezy plains and the halftones of the post-evening moods. Tchaikovsky is a surface lyricist with the superficiality of a painterly naturalist. His lyricism melts real shapes into forms of ideal reminders of a certain fragmentary ensembl in nature in a moment of peculiar expression, graspable only to the soulful eye of the artist.
What is the other side of his work, the side, -let's call it in contrast to the first-practical? Tchaikovsky, as far as painting technique is concerned, it must be admitted - he has mastered it completely. The texture of his paintings is above all clear, besides being completely decisive in its character. His color has a pulp, its own, so to speak, corporeality, inherent in the paint.
Tchaikovsky very skillfully used oil paint. Stanislaw Tchaikovsky's dependence on nature is somewhat secondary. It is enough to take a closer look at the works of the artist from Kazimierz-on-Vistula in order to ascertain this work and draw attention to the essential values of his paintings, first and foremost the composition. Tchaikovsky composes each chosen motif from nature in a tonal arrangement and assumption. Nowhere in his paintings do we encounter haphazardness, usually destroying the totality of intentions, on the contrary, - we see everywhere great will, skill and consistent execution of efforts."
Exhibition of Stanisław Czajkowski, catalog VI, Salon Sztuki Czesław Garliński, Warsaw March 1923, nlb