Wladyslaw Jarocki (1879 Podhajczyki, Ukraine - 1965 Krakow), Artists at the Table

oil, canvas; 130 x 150 cm;
On the back a sticker with a description: Wladyslaw Jarocki, Krakow / "In 1963 I remember the Cluster of my friends, / with whom so many pleasant "Italian" symposia / I experienced in the years 1911 to 1914." / oil, 150 x 130 cm.
Estimate 50,000 - 60,000
Provenance:
- Property of the painter's wife Anna Jarocka
- collection of Wladyslaw Godynia
- private collection, Cracow
Bibliography:
Słownik artystów polskich i obcych w Polsce działających. Malarze, rzeźbiarze, graficy, vol. 3, ed. Derwojed J., Maurin Białostocka J., Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków-Gdańsk 1979.

Portrait themes were close to the work of Wladyslaw Jarocki. The artist created numerous paintings depicting prominent and well-known personalities associated with Krakow, as well as friends and family. He also often painted self-portraits. The work "Artists at the Table" shows Wladyslaw Jarocki's talent for group portraiture. As described in the Dictionary of Polish Artists, it depicts some of the leading figures of the artistic community of the time: Jan Kasprowicz (poet, playwright, literary critic), Leopold Staff (one of the leading poets of Young Poland), Stanislaw Antoni Mueller (novelist), Mieczyslaw Treter (lecturer, co-founder of the Institute of Art Propaganda and director of the State Art Collections in Warsaw), Wladyslaw Kozicki (art historian, playwright, publicist) and Jarocki himself. On the work in question, the listed individuals are placed as follows: Jan Kasprowicz - first on the left, Wladyslaw Jarocki - second on the left, Stanislaw Antoni Mueller - third on the left, Mieczyslaw Treter - third on the right, Wladyslaw Kozicki - second on the right, Leopold Staff - first on the right.