Lot n° 30
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Olga Boznańska (1865-1940)
Mrs. Jagoszewska... - Lot 30 - Ader
Olga Boznańska (1865-1940)
Mrs. Jagoszewska as a young girl
Oil on cardboard.
81 x 61.5 cm
Exhibition:
Venice Biennale 1938 (no. 20).
Provenance :
private collection.
On the reverse side, stuck four labels:
- XXI International Biennial Exhibition of Fine Arts, Venice 1938, mentioning the name of the artist Olga Boznańska, the title of the work Mrs. Jagoszewska as a young girl; the name of the owner Mrs. Jagoszewska and her address at 49 rue de l'Université in the 6th district of Paris.
- XXI. Esposiz.[ione] Biennal.[e] Internaz.[ionale] d'Arte di Venezia - 1938 - XVI with the n° 15.
- Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet, 19, rue Vavin and 2, rue Bréa, Paris VIe, Colors and fine canvases, with an illegible stamp.
- An illegible label.
In 1938, the XXI Venice Biennale celebrated the work of Olga Boznańska, a Polish painter, by hosting her retrospective exhibition. Born to a Polish father and a French mother, she trained in Munich, then moved to Paris in 1898. There, the artist established a reputation as a portraitist while maintaining close contact with her native Poland. Reclining in her studio in the heart of Montparnasse, she dedicated herself to her work, but thanks to her exceptional talent and kindness, she remained a central figure in the artistic colony of the French capital, not only Polish but also international.
The portrait of Mrs. Jagoszewska, a young woman also part of the Polish colony in Paris, is a perfect example of Boznańska's portrait style of the later period, where the painter focuses on the figure of her model, whom she places in a quasi-abstract space, defined with a few brushstrokes thrown freely on her favorite support of barely prepared cardboard. The model, lost in thought, dressed in a white dress reminiscent of a wedding gown, with his head resting on his folded arm, is seated in a large armchair whose shape is vaguely suggested by a few lines.
Olga BOZNAŃSKA (1865 Krakow - 1940 Paris), after studying painting in Krakow and Munich, settled in Paris in 1898, where she exhibited regularly at the Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts, as well as at the Salon d'automne, the Salon des Tuileries, and in private galleries. She showed her work throughout Europe, in the United States and in Japan and was the recipient of numerous awards, medals and distinctions, including the gold medal at the III Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung in Vienna in 1894, the honorable mention at the 1900 Paris World's Fair, the gold medal at the X International Art Exhibition in Munich in 1905, and the bronze medal at the International Art Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1907. One of the most important Polish artists, she is famous for her portraits and still lifes painted in her own individual style. Her works can be found in all the most important museums in Poland, including the National Museums in Krakow and Warsaw, as well as the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Émile Verhaeren in Belgium, the National Gallery of Art in Lviv, the Ca' Pesaro in Venice, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Telfair Museum in Savannah, as well as in numerous private collections around the world.
Dr. Ewa Bobrowska, CEBM-Cabinet d'expertises Bobrowska-Mielniczuk (cebmparis@gmail.com).
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