Dimensions: 56 x 45 cm
Inscribed on the reverse: 'Portrait of a daughter (...) | private property | (hardly legible) 60 no. 23', '71/8(...)' and a framing note, a paper sticker with a printed description of the painting: 'Janina Nowotnowa | PORTRET CÓDKA własn. pryw.', a trace of an unpreserved sticker (of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw?) and a sales receipt from the Salon Desy
Provenance
private collection, Warsaw (purchased from Salon Desa Dzieła Sztuki i Antyki in Warsaw, 1980s).
Exhibited
Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Warsaw, interwar period
Biography
Painter and printmaker, associated with the Kraków and Lviv art communities. She first learned painting at the Baraniecki courses in Cracow, and then at the State Industrial School in Lviv; she studied graphic arts under Ludwik Tyrowicz. She made artistic trips to Vienna, Lausanne, Paris and Prague. She was a member of the Association of Polish Women Painters in Lviv, the Association of Polish Graphic Artists in Krakow, and the Association of Lviv Artists. She participated in numerous exhibitions, including those at TPSP in Krakow, ZPAP in Krakow, TPSP in Lviv, TZSP in Warsaw. The subject of her works were atmospheric cityscapes, studies of flowers and animals, usually with decorative shots, developed with great attention to the technical side. The artist liked to combine the theme of landscape and still life in compositions depicting flowers or fruit on the window sill. Of graphic techniques, she practiced linocut, woodcut, mezzotint and drypoint. Favorite subjects in her graphic works were views of Lviv, Cracow, Biecz, Sanok, Lovarna, Gdansk, Paris, Venice and Prague. Critics often emphasized her technical skill, her penchant for decorativeness and the influence of Wladyslaw Skoczylas' graphics on her work. Her works are in the collections of: Historical Museum of the City of Cracow, National Museum in Cracow, Lviv Picture Gallery.
