Franciszek Ksawery Bujakiewicz, Cheerful Ride
Description
Oil on mahogany desk, signed lower right: "F.Rabski". On the reverse, a gallery sticker and old Austrian customs seals.
Framed: 34x40 cm (16x21 cm).
There are sporadically similar scenes on the market, inspired by the works of the eminent painter, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski. Usually, "J.Konarski" or "S. Konarski" are signed. Recent research assigns these works to the authorship of Franciszek Bujakiewicz. The analysis of the works and the convergence of the signature's character allow the above image to be attributed to this author.
Franciszek Ksawery Bujakiewicz (Mierzejewo 1856 – ok. 1918 Munich) - a painter from the environment of Polish Munich; he studied painting in private in Poznań, and from 1882 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, initially in the so-called Antikenklasse, and from 1885 in Malschule with Alexander Liezen-Mayer. He painted portraits, genre scenes, battle and religious scenes. He exhibited in Munich, at TPSP in Krakow (1884-1893) and TZSP in Warsaw (1886).