Mieczyslaw JURGIELEWICZ (1900-1983), Landscape 44, 1954

Watercolor, gouache; cardboard; 42 x 52 cm;
signed and dated l. d. in pencil
"M. Jurgielewicz. 1954". Below author's dedication: "this Landscape 44 for Zocha was painted by Mietek"-and to the right: "To the very kind and dear Zocha from Mietek 16. III. 1958".
From the collection of Waclaw Jozef Zawadzki. Framed work.
Painter and printmaker. Studied in Vilnius, then in 1924-1928 in Warsaw under Mieczyslaw Kotarbinski, whose assistant he was until the outbreak of war. From 1947 to 1952 he was a lecturer at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. An outstanding wood engraver, a member of the "Rit" exhibiting with the group, he also had solo exhibitions, including in 1939 at the Institute for Art Propaganda, in 1960 in Vienna, in 1969 at the Zachęta Gallery. Works, among others, in Muz. National museums in Gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw and Wroclaw.