Czeslaw Wasilewski, On the Road
oil, canvas, size 50 x 60 cm, signed p. d. "Cz.Wasilewski"
Czeslaw Wasilewski a.k.a. Ignacy (Franciszek) Zygmuntowicz (1875-1947) is a popular author of numerous landscapes with staffage, mainly winter imagery with horse-drawn carriages or two- and four-horse carriages. He is described as a painter associated with the Warsaw art community, a collaborator of Wojciech Kossak. Sometimes these works are attributed to Eligiusz Waclaw Baranowski (1904 - 1997), a painter educated and practiced in the studio of Jerzy Kossak, and in the postwar period associated with Torun. They are quite popular, and although they often repeat motifs and composition - they are painted with great skill and good mastery of technique. They have great decorative value.
