Dimensions: 102 x 228 cm
signed and inscribed l.d.: 'Faust [in black paint] | F. Żmurko [in red paint, illegible]'.
on the reverse: the stamp of Alois Ebeseder's storehouse of painting accessories in Vienna and, on the upper bar of the loom, a fragmentarily preserved exhibition sticker from the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Provenance
private collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
Posthumous exhibition of Franciszek Żmurka, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland, Warsaw, 1911
Literature
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland for the year 1911, Warsaw 1912, p. 47
Franciszek Żmurko 1859-1910, exhibition catalog, ed. by Arkadiusz A. Kwiatkowski, Iwonna Sobierajska, Mazovian Museum in Płock, 1978, cat. no. 44, p. 28
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. 85, p. 85 (il.)
Biography
Franciszek Żmurko began his studies in drawing and painting with Franciszek Tepa in Lviv, and continued in 1874- 81 with Jan Matejko at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, as well as in Vienna, Rome and at the Munich Academy with A. Wagner (1878- 80). After his studies, until 1882, he lived in Cracow, later settling in Warsaw. He traveled a lot - he visited France, Germany, Holland, St. Petersburg. The artist's works were highly regarded by critics and the public; he took part in numerous exhibitions at home (in Warsaw, Krakow, Lviv, Vilnius, Zhytomyr) and abroad, including France, Germany, Holland, England, as well as Chicago and San Francisco. He painted academic compositions of ancient, allegorical-symbolic and sometimes historical and religious themes, as well as portraits.
