Ignacy PIEÑKOWSKI (1877-1948), "Tańcząca odaliska," 1899

oil, canvas (duplicated), 119 x 67.5 cm,
signed p.g.: I. Pieńkowski / Paris 1899
State of preservation: dr. damage to canvas and loss of paint layer, traces of old conservation.




Ignacy PIEŃKOWSKI (1877-1948)
Painter, printmaker, educator. Educated at Gerson's Drawing Class in Warsaw, he continued his studies in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Teodor Axentowicz and Leon Wyczółkowski, and in Munich in 1898 and in Paris in 1899-1900, where he studied at the Académie Julian (and also at the Académie Colarossi). He spent a year in Rome, spent four years in Paris, and visited Italy. Upon his return to Warsaw, he took up a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts there, and after World War I became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. His students included Brzozowski, Cybis, Kantor, Larisch, among others. Known mainly for his still lifes and portraits, he also painted landscapes, symbolic compositions (in his early work), religious compositions, and was involved in printmaking.