Henryk Piatkowski, The Orchard in Summer

oil, canvas, dimensions 27 x 36 cm, signed on the underframe "44 Henryk Piątkowski" in pencil and on the face p. d. dated. "9. 32. "

Henryk Piatkowski (1853-1932) was a painter, sculptor and illustrator, as well as an art critic. Thoroughly educated at the Warsaw Drawing School and later in Munich. A member of the Kunstverain there, he also lived and worked in Paris. After returning to Warsaw in 1899, he took over the studio after Gierymski. A founding member of the Pro Arte art group. His atmospheric landscapes of small formats rendered nature in an impressionistic manner, in the spirit of early 20th century Young Poland painting or the landscapes of Wojciech Weiss. The presented painting is attributed to him. Both in content and form it corresponds to the Artist's ouvre. It is an almost monochromatic picture of a sunlit orchard in full summer - only with the red of the apples on the trees and fragments of blue of the sky does the artist break the greenness of the trees and grass under them.