Aleksander Władysław Malecki (1836 Masłów -1900 Szydłowiec), Tabor in the forest

oil, mahogany board, 31 × 21.5 cm
Signed l. d.: "Malecki" (faintly visible)

"Among the best of our landscape painters is undoubtedly Wladyslaw Malecki, painting our nature with unsurpassed truth and fidelity." Literary Movement 1877, no. 38, p. 176.

"The artist strives for a plastic synthesis imbued with the emotional mood carried by - the subject, the aura, the p ora of the day and the year. In this landscape, too, he reaches for Barbizon-Corotte studies of 'heroic' woods and gently overexposed forests. The forest aisle, full of clearances and luminous effects, was painted in a rich range of luscious greens. The atmosphere of this forest space is created by the luminosity and subtlety of conveying so many features in a simple and natural way. Under this lacy canopy, small human figures play almost no role, not even a compositional one." Alojzy Oborny "Poeta pejzażu", [in:] Władysław Aleksander Malecki 1836 - 1900, Kielce 1999, p. 39.