Artur Waclaw Wielogłowski, THROUGH THE INTERVIEW, 1895

43,3 x 73,3cm - oil, canvas signed p.d.: A. Wielogłowski
On the back a sheet of paper with an inscription in crayon: A. Wielogłowski | "Through the obstacle" | 895.
On the loom inscriptions in crayon: 403 and 403 4 Paintings.


Wielogłowski painted numerous scenes of horse racing tracks, as well as so-called "portraits" of individual horses. Among paintings of this type, shown at exhibitions in Warsaw and Krakow, one can mention, for example, the watercolor Portrait of a Racehorse, as well as the oil Portrait of a Horse Aspirant or the painting Azkabad on the Day of the Great Warsaw Prize. It can be presumed that the painting on display is the same as the canvas Race with Obstacles, which the artist showed at an exhibition at Warsaw's Zachęta Society in 1895.

Literature:
- J. Wiercińska, Catalogue of works exhibited at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1860-1914, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1969, pp. 402, 403.

Artur Wacław Wielogłowski (Odon 1860 - Warsaw 1933) - of Starykoń coat of arms - began his artistic studies in 1879-1882 at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow. Later, from 1882 for two and a half more years he studied in Munich, and then for three years in Vienna, where he was a student of Carl Rudolf Huber. In the earlier period, probably under Huber's influence, he painted paintings with oriental themes (Egyptian Woman, Arrival at the Oasis, At the Ruins of Philae). Later he painted genre paintings, numerous hunting scenes, horses, horse races, landscapes and portraits. He traveled extensively. Around 1905 he lived in Vienna. From 1882 to 1929 he showed his works quite regularly in exhibitions at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw. From 1883 he also exhibited at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow; initially as Artur, and from 1894 as Waclaw Wieloglowski.