Jozef Rapacki (1871 Warsaw - 1929 Olszanka near Skierniewice), Landscape/Wrong Road, 1912.

oil, canvas pasted on cardboard, 32.5 × 48.5 cm (light frame)
Signed and dated p. d.: "JÓZEF RAPACKI 1912"

Reproduced:
- published by Dom Wydawniczy A.Chlebowski p.f. "Dawn" Warsaw (postcard)
- "Polish Landscapes in color reproductions by Jozef Rapacki", published by Dom Wydawniczy A.Chlebowski p.f. "Dawn", Warsaw

"Rapacki painted numerous snowmelt and swamps, rivers, woods, rails, heaths, birches, meadows with marsh marigolds, fields, sheaves, fallows, roads, fields, mills and windmills, under a clear or cloudy sky. He depicted many of these motifs in succession at different times of the year and day, skillfully capturing the colors, mood and light of each." (J. Białynicka-Birula, supplemented by U. Makowska, Rapacki Józef, [in:] Słownik artystów polskich i obcych w Polsce działających (zmarłych przed 1966 r.) malarze, rzeźbiarze, graficy, T. VIII, Pó-Ri, Warsaw 2007, p. 223) "So there is no realism if there is an artist's temperament. Nor is Rapacki a realist, nor is he an impersonal imitator of nature, but a very sensitive, sensitive interpreter of its beauties in his own completely individual way" (Album, commentary on reproduction no. 37, p. 175 nlb.).