Tadeusz Makowski (1882 Oswiecim - 1932 Paris), Girl with a basket of flowers, ca. 1923.

oil, board, 41 × 32.4 cm
Signature p. d.: "Makowski"

Signature on back l. g.: "Makowski N. 114"

Attached to the painting is an expert opinion by Marek Mielniczuk, 2014.

"Looking at a child, he also tries to look at the world with the eyes of a child, with eyes widened by curiosity about the
of the world and the richness of a child's imagination"
(Antoni Wieczorkiewicz, Images of Tadeusz Makowski in Warsaw, "Polska Zbrojna", 28 October 1936, quoted in W. Jaworska, "Tadeusz Makowski. Polish Painter in Paris," Wrocław 1976, p.26.

The evocation of portrait images of children in Polish painting immediately brings to mind the work of Tadeusz Makowski. These works, which are usually small in size and highly emotionally charged, introduce the world of childish carefreeness into which the viewer is taken by the little models. "Until 1918, the child in Makovsky's works appeared only occasionally, now he begins to be a central, foreground figure. (...) Makovsky's attitude to the several-year-old model is serious and respectful, like that of an adult. The artist is far from ignoring even the slightest, experiences of the child; on the contrary, he creates a world of children with its own rich emotional scale. It is not the adult who sees the child who moves him with his unconscious charm and the fact that he is awkward. It is the little creature that imagines itself this way, that sees other children, animals, trees - all in a backwards perspective, because its imagination, although rich and vivid, is not yet honed and reduces or exaggerates the proportions of phenomena depending on the extent to which it is absorbed in them. And besides, it is the right of this several-year-old creature not to care about Euclidean geometry, but to reach with her hand for a star in the sky and draw a rooster bigger than a house."
W. Jaworska, "Tadeusz Makowski. Polish Painter in Paris," Wrocław 1976, pp. 25-26.