Oil, canvas; 50 x 35
Signed p. d.: Wlastimil / Hofman / 1932
Jerzy Antoni Potocki (1889 -1961), diplomat, senator, landowner, captain in the Polish Army (3rd Silesian Cavalry Regiment), son of Roman Ordynat Łańcut and Elżbieta née Radziwiłł. In the years 1919 - 20 adjutant to Józef Piłsudski. In 1930, elected senator from the BBWzR list. From 1933 in the diplomatic service, ambassador to Rome, then to Ankara and from 1936 to Washington. After completing his mission, he settled in Peru.
Wlastimil HOFMAN
1881 Karlino - 1971 Szklarska Poreba
Studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under Florian Cynk, Jan Stanislawski, Leon Wyczolkowski and Jacek Malczewski. In 1899-1902 he still studied with Jean Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. During World War I he stayed in Prague and Paris; from 1920 he lived permanently in Cracow. He exhibited a lot; he belonged to many creative associations - he was a co-founder of the "Group of Five" (1905) and the "Group of Zero" (1908), a member of the Association of Czech Artists "Manes", and from 1911 a member of the Polish Artists' Society "Sztuka". During World War II, through the USSR and Turkey, he made his way to Jerusalem, from where he returned to Krakow in 1946. Since 1947 he lived permanently in Szklarska Poreba. He painted mainly fantastic-symbolic compositions with folk motifs, as well as genre scenes, portraits and landscapes. His paintings, despite close analogies and connections with the art of Malczewski, are always distinguished by their individual character and style.
Asking price 10000
Estimate 15000 - 16000
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