Waclaw Zawadowski (1891-1982), Still life with flowers, ca. 1919

Oil, canvas; size: 65 x 54 cm; signed p. d.: Zawado

On the reverse, stamp of the Parisian firm Lucien Lefebvre Follet. State of preservation: local undercoating of the canvas, few traces of scoring of the paint layer.

An early cubist work by the artist. Very rarely appearing on our art market.

Not every National Museum in Poland can boast Zawadowski's work in its collection. W
1910 he began his studies under Jozef Pankiewicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. During this
during this time he met Mojżesz Kisling, Jan Hrynkowski and Szymon Mondzain. In 1912, he left for Paris,
where he quickly found himself in the artistic community. He maintained contacts with, among others, Amedeo
Modigliani, Guillaume Apollinaire, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger and Robert
Delaunay. During World War I he was in Spain, where he met Pankiewicz and Wladyslaw Jahl.
After Modigliani's death in 1920, Zawadowski took over his studio. He belonged to the Society of Artists
Polish Artists' Society in Paris and to the Cracow Artists' Guild "Jednoróg". The painter's work was presented
in Paris salons, as well as at exhibitions in Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Munich. Since 1938
he headed the Paris branch of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. In his work, one can see the influence of Jozef
Pankiewicz and Paul Cézanne.