Dimensions: 50.5 x 62 cm
signed hard to read p.d.: 'Fr. Żm[...]'
on the front freehand notes
described on the reverse: 'From the exhibition postm. Fr. Żmurki. | No. 45.', inscribed on the painter's loom: '2971'
Exhibited
Posthumous exhibition of Franciszek Żmurka, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland, Warsaw, 1911 (?).
Literature
Janina Wiercińska, Catalogue of works exhibited at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the years 1860-1914, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1969, pp. 435-436 (possibly identical to one of the works listed in the inventory)
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland for 1911, Warsaw 1912, p. 47 (possibly identical to one of the works listed in the index)
Biography
Franciszek Żmurko began his studies in drawing and painting with Franciszek Tepa in Lviv, and continued in 1874- 81 with Jan Matejko at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, as well as in Vienna, Rome and at the Munich Academy with A. Wagner (1878- 80). After his studies, until 1882, he lived in Cracow, later settling in Warsaw. He traveled a lot - he visited France, Germany, Holland, St. Petersburg. The artist's works were highly regarded by critics and the public; he took part in numerous exhibitions at home (in Warsaw, Krakow, Lviv, Vilnius, Zhytomyr) and abroad, including France, Germany, Holland, England, as well as Chicago and San Francisco. He painted academic compositions of ancient, allegorical-symbolic and sometimes historical and religious themes, as well as portraits.
