Wojciech WEISS (1875-1950), Fashionistas - a study for a painting

Study for the painting "Fashionistas";
oil, cardboard; 35.5 x 25 cm;
Signed l. d.: WW;
On the back, inscription: sketch for Fashionistas R 1917 [date crossed out] 1920 561 (in pencil);
and an oval stamp with an inscription around it: FROM THE COLLECTION OF WORKS BY WOJCIECH WEISS. THE ARTIST'S HOUSE with facsimile of the artist in the middle;
below, the number 000810 and an annotated numeral 4.
In 1922 Wojciech Weiss painted the unusual painting "Fashionistas" ( 185 x 143 cm) showing two lovely women arranging beautiful hats in a store window, which are said to have actually belonged to the famous singer Hanka Ordonówna.
The artist spent a long time preparing for this work and sketches for the various elements of the composition have been preserved.
The offered work is a comprehensive study and basically shows the final version, on which the famous painting was based.
It is worth mentioning here that this beautiful completed work was exhibited in European cities in the 1920s; Venice, Prague, Vienna. On the other hand, in the thirties it was shown in the United States of America, to name such cities : St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Baltimore. The painting was also reproduced on the cover of the Weekly Illustrated Supplement "Słowo Polskie", Lviv, February 8, 1926.