Waclaw Pawliszak, Hunting with the Falcon

80.0 x 135.0 cm - oil, canvas signed p.d.: Waclaw Pawliszak

On the bottom strip of the loom a sticker of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts (stamp, print, ink): 41534 Author Pa[wliszak] Waclaw 41[534] | Title hunowani[e z sokoł]em wykonać | Price Wł; also nailed to the bottom frame strip original loom strut with oval seal of the antique shop - Palace of Art.



The painting exhibited and mentioned:

- Guide No. 124 - Hunting in Polish Art, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Warsaw 1937, p. 20 cat. no. 63 (Hunting with Falcons - owned by Aleksander Mysyrowicz);

- Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw for 1937, Warsaw 1938, p. 45 (Hunting with falcons).

Waclaw Pawliszak (Warsaw, 1866 - Warsaw, 1905) - painter, draughtsman, illustrator; already as a child he showed an extraordinary aptitude for drawing; he also began his studies early - first with Wojciech Gerson at the Warsaw Drawing Class, and at the age of fourteen at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow. He studied under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Florian Cynk, and was a favorite student of Jan Matejko. He then went on to study in Munich with Jozef Brandt (1885) and in Paris with A. E. Carolus-Duran (1886). He lived permanently in Warsaw, but traveled extensively; he was in Rome, and above all traveled to the East, where he "fell in love with fanaticism." He traveled to Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, Albania, Dalmatia, Egypt, Iran and Iraq, went to Crimea and Constantinople, everywhere finding subjects for his paintings and with the passion of a collector buying Eastern textiles and weapons. He painted portraits, landscapes and the then popular "rococo scenes," but above all historical and battle paintings from the history of the 17th century Polish wars. He exhibited a lot, both at home and abroad; including in 1889 in Paris (bronze medal for his painting Emir Rzewuski at the Universal Exhibition), in 1894 in Chicago and San Francisco, in 1898 in St. Petersburg, in 1900 in Paris (letter of praise for Shooting Eagles at the World Exhibition). He worked on The Post of Polish Kings, illustrated magazines and books, including Pan Tadeusz, Beniowski and the Vienna edition of The Tale of a Thousand and One Nights. He died tragically, fatally shot by Xawery Dunikowski. There are few paintings by the artist in Polish museum collections; a larger number are in private collections.