BEREZOWSKA Maja (1898-1978), Hunting scene. Original watercolor.

Hunting scene. Original watercolor.

Technique: Ink, pen, watercolor, on paper, signed in ink: "majaberezowska 56." Dimension in light passe-partout: 21 x 30 cm (in frame behind glass: 36 x 44 cm). Contemporary binding.
Good condition. maja Berezowska - Polish painter, illustrator and caricaturist. She studied art in St. Petersburg, Cracow and Munich, and then continued her education in Paris. She gained fame as the author of bold illustrations and caricatures, often with erotic and political themes. In the 1930s she lived and worked in France. After the outbreak of World War II, she returned to Poland, was arrested by the Germans and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she stayed until the end of the war. After 1945, she settled in Warsaw and continued her work, mainly doing book illustration and portrait painting.