Dimensions: 25 x 35 cm
Signed and dated l.d.: 'B. RYCHTER-JANOWSKA 19[.]2'
on the reverse a paper sticker of the Dessa showroom at 21 Foksal Street and a sticker of the Agra-Art auction house in Warsaw
Origin
Agra-Art auction house, October 2018
private collection, Poland
Desa Unicum, July 2021
private collection, Poland
Warsaw Auction House, February 2022
private collection, Poland
Biography
Sister of painter Stanislaw Janowski and wife of Tadeusz Rychter. She studied painting in Munich, at the Florence Academy and in Rome. She was associated with the artistic circles of Cracow. In 1932 she had a solo exhibition in Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery. The artist's realistic paintings are still popular today, mainly due to her chosen subjects - Polish manors and mansions, recordings of interiors of noble residences, Polish churches and country cottages, landscapes and folklore scenes. Rychter-Janowska also traveled extensively abroad, as evidenced by her atmospheric landscapes from Southern Europe, as well as Asia Minor. In addition to oil and watercolor paintings, hand-woven macatas and tapestries are an important part of her work.
