Julian Fałat (1853 Tuligłowy - 1929 Bystra), Torun, 1920.

watercolor, paper pasted on cardboard, 49 × 69 cm light frame
signed, dated and described l. d.: "J.Fałat/Toruń 1920".

"By means of appropriately tuned color patches, by way of their appropriately harmonized expression, Fałat gives not a faithful reflection, a copy, but an artistic equivalent of a motif taken from nature; the artist does not bore with telling details, but only hints and suggests: creating a fresh and vivid excitement for the eye, he forces the imagination to complete the laconic image, awakens from dormancy whole circles of associations, acts directly on the emotional side of human life." M. Treter, Falat, "Fine Arts," 1925/1926, pp. 315-318.

"The list of outdoor motifs he reached for is quite large. It is the result not only of curiosity about the world and sensitivity to its qualities, Julian Fałat's fondness for traveling in the "company" of a brush, a cartridge of paints and some kind of painting ground, but also an expression of a persistent desire to record the power and changeability of landscape forms and the moods of nature" T. Dudek Bujarek, Julian Fałat. A biography written with a brush, Bielsko-Biała 2017, p. 153. 16