Dimensions: 90 x 73.5 cm
signed and dated l.d.: '60 | Tymon'
described in chalk on the reverse: '[ownership note] | 6/76], on the painter's loom a paper sticker described in ink: 'Tymon Niesiołowski | nude si[edzing]y oil | 90 x 73.' and below, in pencil: '1403'
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Origin
Private collection, Europe
Exhibited
Polish Plastic Work in the 15th Anniversary of the Polish People's Republic, National Museum in Warsaw, November 1961-January 1962
Literature
Tymon Niesiołowski (1882-1965), catalog of monographic exhibition, ed. by Agata Rissmann, Toruń 2005, cat. no. 396 (probably identical)
Polish Plastic Work in the 15th Anniversary of the Polish People's Republic, exhibition catalog, Warsaw 1961, p. 61, cat. no. 523 (ill.)
Biography
Studied in 1900-05 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow with J. Mehoffer, S. Wyspianski and T. Axentowicz. In 1907-08, 1912 and 1928 he traveled to Munich, Vienna, Italy and Paris. From 1905 he lived in Zakopane, where he designed patterns for the "Kilim" studio. His early work shows the influence of Art Nouveau and the paintings of Paul Gauguin, later also of Paul Cezanne and August Renoir and Amadeo Modigliani. He used pure, intense colors and outlined figures and objects with expressive contours. From 1928 he was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, and from 1945-60 at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. He was a member of the Podhale Art Society, the Rhythm grouping and the Torun Group. He painted most often nudes in interiors, bathing women, circus and commedia dell'arte characters, flowers and landscapes and city views. He also created commissioned portraits, drew postcards, did printmaking, sculpture, and wrote dramas, short stories and novels.
