48x40 cm, watercolor, paper
Signed on front, lower right corner
Stanisław Dawski (1905-1990) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1932 to 1939: painting under Prof. Felicjan Szczęsny Kowarski, and graphic design under Prof. Leon Wyczółkowski and Stanisław Ostoja-Chrostowski. After World War II, he settled in Wroclaw. He was an organizer of artistic life in that city and a teacher at the local State Higher School of Fine Arts from 1946 to 1970 (in 1952-1962 its rector). He established the school's Glass Department and led the Department of Artistic Glass. In 1970 he moved to Warsaw and took up the position of professor at the Academy of Fine Arts' Faculty of Painting, where he remained until his retirement in 1975. He worked in the fields of easel and wall painting and printmaking, and was also involved in sculpture, glass and artistic ceramics. He received many prestigious art and national awards and decorations, including the 1951 and 1956 Wrocław City Awards, the 1973 Warsaw Art Prize.
