M. Arct, Warsaw, 1936, p. 206, 154 illustrations on separate plates (unnumbered), dimensions 18 x 25 cm, original cloth binding, no dust jacket, pages clean, minor soiling and wear on the cover.
A classic and one of the best monographs on the artist’s work, written by his student, the outstanding painter and writer Józef Czapski (1896–1993).
Józef Pankiewicz —painter and printmaker; one of the first Impressionists and Symbolists in Polish art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries; the initiator of the colorist movement in Polish painting of the 1920s and 1930s. Born on November 29, 1866, in Lublin; died on July 4, 1940, in Marseille. He was one of the leading figures of 20th-century Polish art; in the 1920s, he initiated the Polish colorist movement, which grew out of the experiences of the French Post-Impressionists. As an educator, he influenced the artistic development of an entire generation of Polish painters and graphic artists, primarily those associated with the Paris Committee (the “Kapists”), including artists of the caliber of Jan Cybis, Artur Nacht-Samborski, Józef Czapski, Zygmunt Waliszewski, and Tadeusz Potworowski.
