Wacław Żaboklicki “Winter landscape”, 1936
Description
Pastel on paper, signed and dated lower left "W.Żaboklicki 1936". On the reverse sketch by pencil.
Framed: 63x80 cm (65x50 cm)
Sketch dimensions: 20x29 cm
Wacław Żaboklicki (Zakrzew 1879 - 1959 Warszawa) Polish painter. In the years 1897-99 he studied in the Wojciech Gerson Drawing Class in Warsaw. Wacław continued his education at the Academy in Munich in the years 1901 - 1903 in the studios of Carl Marr and Anton Ažbe, next at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. In the years 1905 - 1906 he began to exhibit his work. He traveled to Russia (1898), Italy (1901), France (1904-12), where he became friends with Ślewiński. During the First World War he lived in Russia, later in Warsaw. He mainly painted urban landscapes, flowers and coastal landscapes, mainly using pastels and oil paints.