Piotr Stachiewicz, HEAD, ca. 1915

37,3 x 45,5cm - oil, canvas signed p.d.: P. Stachiewicz

On the reverse of the oval stamp of the manufacturer of the sub-images.

On the loom a sticker (print, manuscript) reading: New Salon [Art] | S.JASIELSKIE [GO] | Warsaw | Wierzbowa 7 tel. 22[8-66] | Author Stachiewicz Piotr | title "Head" | type of work oil | price 110,000,000 Mkp | ownership N. S. Sz. | date 31/XI 1923; next to: N 52.

On frame sticker: Pracownia | ANTONIEGO STRZEMIECZNEGO | Warsaw, Bracka 17 | CHURCH AND SALON ROBOTS, RENOVATION | of altars and furniture with imitations of old gildings | (antiques), STYLE FRAMES, FURNISHING OF ARTISTS | CHURCH AND PHOTOGRAPHY



Compare:

- Piotr Stachiewicz (1858-1938), Pasterka / Bergere, "WISŁA" Publishing House in Cracow, ca. 1915, National Museum in Warsaw, inv. no. DI 75604 MNW.



Piotr Stachiewicz (Nowosiółki Gościnne 1858 - Kraków 1938) - painter and illustrator. He graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic. From 1877 to 1883 he studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, including under J. Matejko, and from 1883 to 1885 at the Munich Academy under O. Seitz. He traveled to Italy and the Holy Land. He painted genre scenes, portraits - including the popular "heads" of girls, and religious paintings, the most famous of which is the series "Legend of the Virgin Mary" from 1892 - 1893. He created a series of paintings based on the novels of H. Sienkiewicz and the poetry of A. Mickiewicz. He was involved in book illustration, illustrating, among others, "Quo vadis?" by Sienkiewicz and "Fairy Tales" by J.I. Kraszewski.