Jan STYKA (1858-1925) Ulysses embracing his... - Lot 18 - Ader

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Jan STYKA (1858-1925) Ulysses embracing his... - Lot 18 - Ader
Jan STYKA (1858-1925) Ulysses embracing his beloved son [1901]. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Titled on the back of the frame and on a label affixed to the canvas. (Restorations.) 78 x 61 cm [Kolekcja Paula Schlockoff] Attached is Le Figaro - artistic supplement, Thursday, June 28, 1923, devoting an article to the exhibition of works from the cycle L'Odyssée held at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français. One of about 60 illustrations of Homer's Odyssey (t. III, Adventures of Ulysses, Book of Eumaios, Paris 1923, reproduced p. 288). LXIII. - Ulysses embraces his beloved son At these words he sits down. The hero sighs / Towards his father and embraces him while crying; / With a painful pleasure both are fed, / The eagles, the vultures less long moan, / When a shepherd took away their children whose rise / Did not dare in the air to spread out again. / Both to weep taste sad charms; / The sunset would contemplate their tears, / Telemachus finally would have uttered these words: / "My beloved father! speak: which sailors / Have led you to Ithaca, and what is their homeland, / You did not come on foot to our beloved island." Paul Schlockoff's Styka - lots 6 to 27 The rich correspondence presented lot 26 testifies to the close relationship Adam Styka kept with family friend Paul Schlockoff. After emigrating to the United States in the late 1940s, Adam entrusted him with the management of his Parisian affairs. He also exchanges on his daily life and the members of his family. The set we are dispersing has since remained in Paul Schlockoff's family. Through these drawings and paintings, we discover the father, Jan Styka, a faithful student of Jan Matejko. In his work, he often evokes the martyred and torn Poland of the 19th century. He calls upon his great classical culture, his knowledge of mythology and religion. The works of Tadé and Adam, who received a solid education from their father, belong to a new generation, that of freedom and openness to the world. Adam's letters allow us to better understand the destiny of these men who devoted their lives to art without ever forgetting their homeland, even far from its borders.
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