Wladyslaw Slewinski (1856 Bialyn - 1918 Paris), Flowers in a vase with green glaze ("Fleurs au pot vert"), ca. 1909.

oil, canvas, 61 × 50 cm
on the reverse of the stamp: "Władysław Ślewiński/ from legacy/ posthumous and signature in copy pencil: E. Ślewińska"

Inscribed and reproduced:
- W. Jaworska, "Władysław Ślewiński 1854-1918: A monographic exhibition". Warsaw 1983, p. 110 (item 238) and item 212 in the catalog of illustrations.

Provenance:
- Alexandre Pissenko Collection, Nantes
- Collection of Eugenia Slevinska, Paris
- Collection of the Primel Family, Paris, Tours
- Private collection, Poland

"And your flowers! Those poppies, those anemones, those sunflowers. They are not perfect photographs of things that were alive but extinguished the moment they were on the film, they are eternally living individualisms, astonishing not only by their technique, but above all by the melancholy music of your soul."
J. Kasprowicz, Introduction to the catalog of an exhibition by W. Slewinski, Lvov, TPSP 1907

"A wide field of Ślewiński's expression, showing another side of his work - a more intimate and intimate side, is still life, including floral compositions. One can risk the claim that in still life and flowers he expressed himself most personally and fully. And this is in the sense of emotion as well as painterly artistry. (...) "With special "tenderness" and perhaps resulting from this emotional relationship, Ślewiński painted flowers with virtuosity. Field flowers in ordinary clay pots and jugs, less often garden flowers in slender glass flacons or Delft vases, flowers in pots, on tables, chairs, stools - this is a long floral suite that runs through the entire, nearly thirty years of Slevinsky's work. He never treats flowers as a decoration of a residential interior. On the contrary, he separates them with a drapery or wall from their surroundings, giving them the characteristics of individual "existence." Ślewiński's flowers, botanically unambiguous, are a negation of naturalistic reproduction of leaves, petals, stamens. They are treated synthetically, for they are 'portraits' of flowers, not their color photography."
"Władysław Ślewiński 1854-1918: A monographic exhibition", ed. W. Jaworska, Warsaw 1983, pp. 23-25.