Museum quality portrait of a young sheperd was executed in 1883 and due to the style, quality and Polish inscription by the illegible signature attributed to Polish painter and art writer Wladyslaw Wankie (Wanke) (1860 - Warshaw - 1925). The artist studied in Art School in Warshaw by W.Gerson and A.Kaminski, short time - in Cracow, 1880, since 1880 - in the Art Academy in Munich ., where he lived and worked untill 1900. Our work created in this period in Munich. In 1901 he settled in Warshaw , created genre works, later landscapes and fisher scenes from french Bretane . His paintings are in museums in Warshaw and Lemberg (Lwiw/Ukraine).
Literature: Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künsler..", Leipzig, 1999; exhibiton catalogue ""Wladyslaw Wankie" by L.Skalska-Miecik, Gallery Sztuki , Polish Museum , Warshaw, 1989.
Inscription: signed illegible W?.Wanke (Wankie) , dated (18)83, 31/5 and titled in polish "Monachium" (in english: Munich), lower left.
Technique: oil on canvas . Luxuriousy original period frame.
Measurements: unframed w 27 1/2" x h 46 4/5" (70 x 119 cm), framed w 32 4/5" x h 52" (83,5 x 132 cm)
Condition: in very good condition. |