Description
Pastel, paper; 58 x 45 cm
Signed p.g.: Piotr Stachiewicz
Asking price 12000
Estimate 15000 - 18000
Piotr STACHIEWICZ
1858 Nowosiółki Gościnne - 1938 Kraków
Painter and illustrator. Among other things, he made illustrations to Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Between 1877 and 1883 he studied in the studio of Jan Matejko at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. He then continued his studies with Seitz at the Academy in Munich, from where he traveled to Italy and Palestine after 1885. In 1886 he was back in Cracow, where he became a member of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts. He painted genre and religious scenes and portraits, which brought him the greatest fame.
