Dimensions: 140 x 177 cm
signed and dated l.d.: 'JÓZEF CHEŁMOŃSKI | 1911'.
on the painter's loom a paper gallery sticker, exhibition stickers, including one fragmentarily preserved and a trace of another
Provenance
collection of Leon Franciszek Goldberg-Górski (1863-1937), physician, military officer and prominent collector, Warsaw, until ca. 1929 (purchased from the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw)
Abe Gutnajer Salon, Warsaw (1937)
private collection, Warsaw
DESA Unicum, June 2022
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
106 Piotrkowska Street Gallery, Lodz, 1937
Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, July-August 1929
Exhibition of works by Józef Chelmonski, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, July 1927
Exhibition for the benefit of the Society for the Protection of Children of the Jewish Faith Warsaw, January-February 1916
Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 1915
Salon 1911-1912, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland, Warsaw, December 1911-January 1912
Literature
Józef Chełmoński 1849-1914, exhibition catalog, vol. 2, ed. Ewa Micke-Broniarek, Wojciech Głowacki, Tadeusz Matuszczak, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 2024, p. 391 (ill.), cat. no. 340]
Tadeusz Matuszczak, Chełmoński poszukiwany, edited by Elżbieta Charazińska, Radziejowice 2014, p. 136, cat. no. 106, ill.
Janina Wiercińska, Catalogue of works exhibited at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the years 1860-1914, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1969, p. 51.
Zofia Nowak, The collection of Leon Franciszek Goldberg-Górski. "Yearbook of the National Museum in Warsaw" 1966, r. X, p. 430, cat. no. 18
Wanda Czernic-Zhalinska, Salon Sztuki "Skarbiec" in Warsaw. Calendar of activities in 1940-1950, "Yearbook of the National Museum in Warsaw" 1966, vol. 10, p. 504
Józef Chełmoński in the light of correspondence, compiled by. Jan Wegner, Wrocław 1953, pp. 20, 138, Sources for the History of Polish Art, vol. 6.
Return from the Meadows. Photograph of a painting by Józef Chelmonski, pre-1939, reproduction photograph, National Library, Iconography Warehouse, inv. no. F.13101/IVA
Catalog of the exhibition of works of art of the Salon of Works of Art of Abe Gutnajer of Warsaw, Lodz 1937, item 152 (as "Girl with a rake").
Catalog of works of Polish painting. Abe Gutnajer's art salon and antique shop, Warsaw 1930, item 234 (as "Girl")
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw for the year 1929, Warsaw 1930, p. nlb.
Guide to the exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. No. 45. exhibition of Polish painting of the second half of the 19th century, Warsaw 1929, p. 9, cat. no. 840
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw for 1927, Warsaw 1928, p. nlb.
Edward Chwalewik, Polish Collections. Archives, libraries, cabinets, galleries, museums and other collections of memorabilia of the past in the homeland and abroad in alphabetical order by locality arranged, vol. 2, Warsaw-Krakow 1927, p. 387
Guide to the Exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. Exhibitions of paintings by Wojciech Gerson, Józef Chełmoński No. 25 (July 1927), Warsaw 1927, p. 27, cat. no. 44
Alfons Dzięciołowski, Exhibition of Art, "Nowa Gazeta" 1916, no. 25, p. 2
Catalog of the exhibition for the benefit of the T[owarzyst]wa Ochron. for Children of the W[yznania]. M[ojeszowy], Druk. Długa 29 (Hotel Polski), Warsaw 1916, p. 2, item 14
Wladyslaw Wankie, T.Z.S.P. in Warsaw, Exhibition of works: Chełmoński, Brandt, Kowalski and Witkiewicz, "World" 1915, no. 45, p. 8
Henryk Piątkowski, Józef Chełmoński, "Kurier Warszawski" 1914, no. 97, p. 2.
W., Józef Chełmoński. Painter-poet of the Polish landscape, "Nowa Reforma" 1914, no. 127 [Literary Supplement], p. III
Zofia Skorobohata-Stankiewicz, Salon, "Ivy" 1912, r. XLVIII, no. 5, pp. 55-57
Salon 1911-1912. the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland, Warsaw 1912, cat. no. 41 (ill.)
"Kurier Warszawski" 1912, no. 71, p. 4
Henryk Piątkowski, "Salon 1911-1912" (Zacheta Society), "Kurier Warszawski" 1912, no. 26, p. 2
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland for the year 1911, Warsaw 1912, p. 31
X.Z., Opening of the "Salon", "Słowo" 1911, no. 337, p. 4
"Kurier Warszawski" 1911, no. 345, p. 4
Antoni Gawinski, Salon. II., "Nowa Gazeta" 1911, no. 589, p. 3
Adam Breza, Annual exhibition in Warsaw, "World," 1911, no. 51, p. 13
ARCHIVES:
Image captured in: Bequest of Maria Chelmonska, Special Collections, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences; Receipt Book 1947-1949 (receipt no. 1212) and Purchase Offers (ref. 457, vol. 1), National Museum in Warsaw.
Biography
In 1867-71 he studied painting at the Drawing Class and at Wojciech Gerson's private studio in Warsaw. In 1871-74 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was associated with the Polish artistic colony centered around Jozef Brandt and Maksymilian Gierymski. A formative moment for Chelmonski's work was his travels to Podolia and Ukraine (1872 and 1874-75). Until 1887 he lived in Paris, where his paintings were very popular. He then returned to Poland, settling in Kuklówka near Grodzisk Mazowiecki. He was one of the most outstanding Polish landscape painters of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted realistic and atmospheric in character landscapes and genre scenes inspired by Mazovian or borderland nature. Chelmonski's paintings are in the most important public collections in Poland, as well as European and American private collections.
