Józef Chełmoński (1849 Boczki near Łowicz - 1914 Kuklówka), "Pond in Radziejowice," 1899

Origins
purchase by banker Jan Goldstand from an exhibition at TZSP in 1900
collection of Jan Goldstand's son Feliks Goldstand, Warsaw
collection of Mr. Baranowicz, Otrębusy near Warsaw, 1960s.
purchase by Michal Skowron, Poznan, 1994
purchase by private collector through Fizek&Skowron Gallery, August 1994
deposit at the National Museum in Warsaw, 1998-2001

Exhibited
Exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 1899-1900
Exhibition of Works by Józef Chelmonski, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, May 19-June 151907
Exhibition Unknown works of the great masters : Polish painting of the 19th/20th century: a show of deposits, National Museum in Warsaw, January-February 1999
Die vier Jahreszeiten. Polnische Landschaftsmalerei von der Aufklärung bis heute, Schrin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, October 6-November 26, 2000
Józef Chelmonski 1849-1914, National Museum in Warsaw, September 27-January 26, 2025
Jozef Chelmonski 1849-1914, National Museum in Poznan, March 6-June 29, 2025
Joseph Chelmonski 1849-1914, National Museum in Cracow, August 8-November 30, 2025

Literature
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland for the year 1899, Warsaw 1900, p. 31
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland for the year 1900, Warsaw 1901, p. 35
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland for the year 1907, Warsaw 1908, p. 15
Wanda Chełmońska, Ze wspomnień o Józef Chełmońskim, "Tęcza" 1939, no. 2, pp. 31-34
Józef Chełmoński in the light of correspondence, ed. Jan Wegner, Wroclaw 1953, p. 18
Janina Wiercińska, Catalogue of works exhibited at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the years 1860-1914, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1969, Sources to the History of Polish Art, vol.14, p.50
Maciej Masłowski, Malarski żywot Józefa Chełmońskiego, Warsaw 1972, (2nd ed.), il. 46
Alfred Ligocki, Józef Chełmoński, Warsaw 1983, p.74
Elżbieta Charazińska, Ewa Micke-Broniarek, Anna Tyczyńska, Polish Painting in Private Collections. Unknown works of outstanding artists of the 19th century, Auction House "AGRA", Warsaw 1995, cat. no. 72, p. 75 (il.)
Tadeusz Matuszczak, Józef Chełmoński, Cracow 1996, pp. 7, 22, p. 67 (il.)
Maria Bartosiewicz, Ewa Pustoła-Kozłowska, Radziejowice. Facts and mysteries., Warsaw 1997, p. 25
Chronicle 1998-1999 Acquisitions, "Bulletin du Musee Nationale de Varsovie," 1999, no. 2-4, p. 227
Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Franciszek Stolot, History of Polish Painting, Cracow 2000, p. 224.
Tadeusz Matuszczak, Painter of Polishness [in:] Józef Chełmoński. Katalog - Pamiętnik wystawy, oprac. Tadeusz Matuszczak, Radziejowice 2002, pp. 6-11
Tadeusz Matuszczak, Józef Chełmoński, Cracow 2003, p. 99 (il.)
Józef Chełmoński 1849-1914, exhibition catalog, volume 2, ed. by Ewa Micke-Broniarek, Wojciech Głowacki, Warsaw 2024, p. 292, cat. no. 243 (ill.)

Biography
In 1867-71 he studied painting at the Drawing Class and at the private studio of Wojciech Gerson in Warsaw. In 1871-74 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was associated with the Polish artistic colony centered around Jozef Brandt and Maksymilian Gierymski. A formative moment for Chelmonski's work was his travels to Podolia and Ukraine (1872 and 1874-75). Until 1887 he lived in Paris, where his paintings were very popular. He then returned to Poland, settling in Kuklówka near Grodzisk Mazowiecki. He was one of the most outstanding Polish landscape painters of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted realistic and atmospheric in character landscapes and genre scenes inspired by Mazovian or borderland nature. Chelmonski's paintings are in the most important public collections in Poland, as well as European and American private collections.