Ludomir Sleńdzinski, AFTER THE CONCERT. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S DAUGHTER, 1944

130,0 x 115,5cm - oil, canvas glued on plywood

AFTER THE CONCERT. PORTRAIT OF JULITA, THE ARTIST'S DAUGHTER, 1944



dimensions in the author's frame 133.5 x 118.5 cm

signed at the bottom, in the middle: FOR THE MEMORIAL OF THE FIRST KON | CERT | ON 30 VI 1944 |.

DEDICATES TO DAUGHTER JULITA | LUDOMIR SLENDZINSKI | AUTHOR WILNO 1944



in all corners text informing about the concert program:

- l.g.: I | BACH - | BUSONI | CHROMATI | /SCHE FANTA | SIE UND FU | GA | D-MOLL | GALUPPI | SONATA PER | CEMBALO | C-DUR.

- p.g.: L. VAN | BEETHOVEN | APPASSIONATA | F. MOLL | OP. 57 | SCHMAN | PAPILLONS | D MAJOR | OP. 2

- l.d.: F. CHOPIN | MAZURKA | C-MOLL | OP. 24 | BALLADA | C-MOLL | OP 23 | ÉTUDE | No 2 | AS DUR | NOCTURNE | E-DUR | OP. 62 | No. 2

- p.d.: F. LISZT | RHAPSODIE | HONGROISE | XIII



Literature:

- Ludomir Slendzinski Collective Exhibition and Exhibition of the Group of Cracow Artists "NURT", February-March 1950, Society of Friends of Fine Arts, Palace of Art, Cracow 1950, p. 5, cat. no. 8;

- H. Dobrowolska, Works of Ludomir Slendziński. Addendum to the catalog of the artist's works published in Rocznik Muzeum Narodowego, XVI, 1972 [in:] Ludomir Slendziński. Memoirs of an Exhibition, National Museum Warsaw 1977, p. 74, cat. no. 11 [owned by the artist].



Julita Anna Sleńdzińska (1927-1992), the artist's daughter, was an accomplished pianist and harpsichordist, and - next to his wife Irena - his favorite model. He portrayed her many times - as a baby in a stroller, an adolescent girl and later a young woman. Julita studied at the Vilnius Conservatory from 1938, including from 1941-1944 in the class of Professor Stanislaw Szpinalski. Her first public concert, recognized as her graduation exam, took place at the Vilnius Philharmonic Hall on June 30, 1944, still under German occupation. Its program included, among other things, works by Chopin, and the concert itself for the Vilnius community was an event of solemn, patriotic significance. Julita's portrait is a memento of this concert. Maintained in art deco style, it is painted with palpable tenderness and paternal pride. The artist emphasized the soft facial features of the young, seventeen-year-old pianist, her graceful figure, elegant dress and long, loose hair, impasto-modeled in paint. Years later, he also included this portrait of Julita in his Memoir, a series of double paintings describing the most important events of her life, painted between 1965 and 1967.

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Ludomir Sleńdzinski (Vilnius 1889-Krakow 1980) - painter, sculptor and pedagogue, a leading representative of the so-called Vilnius School. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg under the direction of D.N. Kardovsky. His diploma work was the painting Idyll, purchased in 1916 for the Academy's collection. He spent the years of World War I in Ekaterinovsk and Humansk. From 1920 he lived in Vilnius, where he was co-founder and president of the Vilnius Society of Artists, and from 1925 a professor of painting at the University. He traveled to Italy and France several times; he also traveled to Spain, England, the Middle East and Africa. From 1945 he lived in Cracow, holding the chair of drawing and sculpture at the Technical University. The artist's diverse oeuvre, shaped in the circle of Russian Neoclassicism and referring to both Vilnius painting of the first half of the 19th century and Italian Renaissance art, included figural compositions, portraits, wall paintings and sculptures.