Description
Watercolor, paper; 30 x 23.5 cm
Signed on the middle d.: Kamil Mackiewicz
Kamil MACKIEWICZ
1887 Werki - 1931 Warsaw
Studied initially in Moscow, and from 1905 at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts under Konrad Krzyzanowski. He supplemented his artistic studies in London and New York. During World War I, called up as an officer in the Russian army, he was wounded and stayed in a German prisoner of war camp until the end of the war. After returning to Warsaw, he worked under Konrad Krzyzanowski at his private School of Painting and Drawing. During the 1920 Polish-Bolshevik War, in which he participated as a soldier, he made banners, posters and other prints for the Central Propaganda Committee. He was discharged from the army with the rank of captain and left New York around 1923, where he worked as an illustrator. Upon his return he lived in Warsaw, and for the last 3 years of his life he stayed at the Duniłowicze estate of Jozef Tyszkiewicz. He was a hunter and storyteller, known in wide social circles. He traveled extensively, including to the Caucasus, France, Holland, Africa and the USA. The mainstream of his work was drawing and illustration. He worked with a number of magazines, including the Lviv-based "Szczutek" in 1918-1921, where in 1919 he published a kind of comic strip with texts by Stanislaw Wasylewski. He often dealt with war and military themes, as well as hunting. He illustrated numerous books for adults and children.
Asking price 800
Estimate 1000 - 1200
Auction 211, 9.04.2022
