Lot 505
Rafal Malczewski (1892-1965), Polish / Canadian
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Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto, ON
Note:
In the words of Polish art critic Mieczysław Wallis, the great theme of the artist’s work was “a man establishing his miniature country on the fringes of nature – that's Malczewski's world.”[1] The contrast between the vastness of the natural world and the smallness of the figures who populated his work was Malczewski's signature. This was diametrically opposed to the art of his famous father, Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929), “whose canvas focused on central, meaningful and allegorical human figures presented against a landscape relegated to a secondary role.”[2]
[1] Mieczysław Wallis, Polish Twentieth Century Art (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Arkady, 1959), p. 174
[2] Jerzy Krzyzanowski, “Canadian Art Critics on Rafał Malczewski”. The Polish Review, Vol. 38, No. 2. (University of Illinois Press on behalf of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America, 1993), Accessed online Oct 5, 2022: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25778712.