Stefan Domaradzki "Paris", 1948
Description
Oil on cardboard, signed, described and dated lower left: "St. Domaradzki Paris 48"
Framed: 38x47 cm (17x26 cm)
Stefan Domaradzki (Niżny Nowogród 1897 - 1983 Nandy) – Polish painter. He was born into a Polish family in Tsarist Russia. In 1912, he lived with his family in Nice in the south of France, and took lessons from local painters. He returned to Moscow, where he attended the Stanisław Żukowski art school. In 1918, he began studying at the School of Fine Arts in Moscow in the studio of Maxim Malyutin. In 1921 he moved to Poland, and from 1922 he continued his studies at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts in the studio of Karol Tichy. From 1924, his works regularly participated in exhibitions of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, and in 1935 he was awarded a silver medal at the Zachęta Salon. In 1939, he went to New York, where his works were exhibited at the exhibition of contemporary art at the Gallery of Science Art. After World War II, he remained in exile in France and the United States. Stefan Domaradzki created still lifes, atmospheric landscapes and vedutes. One of the largest exhibitions of his works was at Zachęta in 1929.