Boleslaw NAWROCKI, PORTRET PANI M. R., 1915

Pastel, paper pasted on canvas, 115 x 90cm
Signed in light green pastel p. d.: B Nawrocki 1915.
On the back of the stretcher exhibition sticker TZSP, Warsaw: no. 29494 | Nawrocki Bolesław Portret Pani M. R. |.
pastel| 29 IV 1915.
Painting exhibited: TZSP, Warsaw, 1915
Asking price 50000
Estimate 60000 - 70000

Bolesław NAWROCKI
1877 Lodz - 1946 Pabianice
After taking drawing lessons from W. Gerson, he left for Munich in 1895. Here he initially attended the school of S. Grocholski, and then studied for two years at the Munich academy under J. C. Herterich. After studying with L. Wyczółkowski in Cracow for two months, he continued his studies at the Académie Julian, the Académie Vitti and the Académie Colarossi in Paris. Here he also established his own studio, which functioned until 1907. At the end of that year, he returned to the country and engaged in painting and teaching. He even established his own painting school in Lodz. He lived successively in Warsaw and Poznan.
In 1923 he bought the family house in Pabianice and here he amassed a rich art collection, and from 1930 to 1938 he ran a drawing and painting school. He exhibited in Paris, Bordeaux and many times at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He had his exhibition in Warsaw in 1908, and had individual exhibitions in 1909 at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow, in 1925 in Poznan, in 1926 at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow, in 1929 at the Zacheta Society of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and in Lodz in 1929 and 1930, in Pabianice in 1930, 1933 and 1939.
Nawrocki painted symbolic compositions, also symbolic elements appeared in his portraits. He also created landscapes, official portraits, studies of plants, scenes illustrating important contemporary events ( for example, two scenes devoted to the events of the reign of King Victor Emmanuel III, the Miracle on the Vistula River, the reception of Marshal Foch by the Poznan City Council ). He returned to the nocturne motif in his work. As a portraitist, he had the opportunity to create images of famous people, including the later presidents of France, Armand Clement Fallieres and Gaston DoumerqueÈ, Stanislaw Wojciechowski, Ignacy Paderewski, Franciszek Kleeberg.