WASILEWSKI Czeslaw (1875 Warsaw - 1946 Lodz), Sanna.

Sanna.

Oil on canvas. Signature p.d.: "Cz. Wasilewski". Dimensions: 43 x 67.5 cm (in frame: 58 x 82.5 cm).
Czeslaw Wasilewski (ca. 1875 - Warsaw/Lodz 1947), popular Warsaw painter during the interwar period, author of paintings inspired by the canvases of Kossak, Brandt, Chelmonski, Wierusz-Kowalski or Fałat. He was self-taught; although he enrolled in the Warsaw School of Fine Arts in 1911, nothing further is known about his studies. He may have attended there (1913-1917) the studio of Wojciech Kossak, for whom he later prepared sub-paintings for paintings in the early 1920s. He participated in many exhibitions in the 1920s and 1930s. He painted mainly numerous carriages, sledges, hunting trips, lancers on patrol, elk, roe deer and wild boar in the woods. He also created atmospheric landscapes, clearly inspired by the paintings of J. Chelmonski. Identified with a painter named "Zygmuntowicz," whose works appeared on the art market from the 1930s onward. The initial I. or F., placed in front of this name, may suggest the name Ignatius or Francis.