Oil, canvas on cardboard; 46.5 x 37 cm
Signed p. d.: Jadwiga Sperling
Asking price 3000
Estimate 5000 - 6000
Jadwiga SPERLING
1906 Kocmyrzów - 1978
Polish painter of Jewish origin, associated with Cracow. She took her painting lessons at the Ludwik Mehoffer Free School of Painting and Drawing and from 1924-1929 at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts under Władysław Jarocki. She also took lessons from Jozef Pankiewicz in Paris. Her husband was Serbian Milan Cetîc, with whom she went to Belgrade. In 1932 she was a member of the New Generation group and, as a member, exhibited her works in Lviv. In Cracow she belonged to the Association of Artists "Zwornik", under the auspices of which she exhibited her works in Warsaw (1930, 1932, 1935, 1938), Cracow (1931, 1932) and Poznań (1931, 1932 and 1936). In 1935 she co-organized an exhibition of "Zwornik" artists in Belgrade. Being a member of other art associations, she exhibited her works in 1938 in Lviv, in 1933 at an exhibition of works by members of the Association of Jewish Painters and Sculptors, in 1934 at a Krakow exhibition of works by Wojciech Weiss and his students organized by TPSP.
The subjects of her works were landscapes, portraits, figural scenes and still lifes. Her work was characterized by a tendency to strong expression, emphasizing the mood of the motif, gentle deformation of the elements of representation - obtaining in her painting almost abstract shapes. She clearly described forms, enclosing them in separate patches.
