Dimensions: 84 x 96,5 cm
Provenance
private collection, Warsaw
Biography
"He is not able to imitate anyone, he cannot, he cannot be someone else, only himself. Even if he wanted to. He would be such in any place and time. We face the painting as if it were an accomplished fact. But here the fact is this individuality, predatory in its ruthlessness. One can succumb to it or walk away. It cannot be corrected." (Wiktor Podoski) "Gotard painted mainly portraits and portrait studies, treated generically. [...] they were characterized by sharpness and certainty of drawing, precision of detail, a tendency to intensify expressive exaggerations the use of Carravagian dark backgrounds and local color." (Hanna Kubaszewska)