Marian Mokwa (1889 Malary - 1987 Sopot), Sailing ship

oil, canvas, 60 × 50 cm
Signed p. d.: "Mokwa"

"The sea views painted by Mokwa have the same compelling style as the people. The painter loves what he captures in art. These things tell us a lot about the artist's always powerful experiences (...) His painting sea is alive, talking, humming, roaring. Whether from the morning's rising vapors, lazy and half-sleeping, when the sea's skin is barely wrinkled, whether on a cloudy day it is pregnant with lead, whether it is frozen, with the white mane of the waves furious, rushing a herd of wild horses, whether in the evening it is quiet, drowned in stately violets, or after sunset mysterious, dark, inked. All the phases of the life of the sea, all its moments, of a laborious, busy day, knows Mokwa like himself. Every whisper of it, not understood by everyone, he knows how to write out with his brush on the carnets of its life."

K. Wójcicki, "Conversations with Mokwa", Gdynia 1997, p. 103.