gouache, pastel/cardboard
Dimensions: 48 x 33 cm (inside the frame)
signed and dated lower right: 'SJAXA | 1933'
Bibliography
Katarzyna Łomnicka, Jaxa. Soter August Jaxa-Małachowski, Kraków 2014, p. 189 (ill.)
Biography
He studied at the Kraków School of Fine Arts under F. Cynk, I. Jabłoński, and Wł. Łuszczkiewicz. From 1894 onward, he continued his artistic studies at Stanisław Grocholski’s School of Drawing and Painting in Munich, where he lived until 1901. The following year, he returned to Poland and settled permanently in Kraków. He traveled to Italy on numerous occasions. The artist’s body of work consists primarily of landscape paintings. Jaxa’s paintings are characterized in particular by seascapes and nocturnes. The artist participated in numerous exhibitions—at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts (TPSP) in Kraków, the Society of Young Polish Artists (TZSP) in Warsaw, the Krywult Salon in Warsaw, the Society of Friends of Fine Arts (TPSP) in Lviv, as well as in Łódź, Poznań, and Lublin. Jaxa-Małachowski’s works are held in the collections of Polish museums and in private collections.
