Watercolor on paper, signed and dated on the underside "Z.Radnicki 1947". Dimensions in frame: 87x67 cm (61x41 cm).
Provenance: furnishings of the Bristol Hotel in Warsaw, 1945-65.
Zygmunt Radnicki (1894-1969) - initially studied at the Podhorodecki Drawing School. In 1913 he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Dębicki, J. Mehoffer and W. Weiss. In 1925 he went to Paris, where he worked under J. Pankiewicz. In 1946 he became a professor at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts. He exhibited in the Lviv section of the Formalists, in the "Avant-garde" in Lviv, as well as in Paris, Brussels, New York. He painted landscapes, still lifes and portrait studies. His paintings can be seen at the National Museum in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan and Szczecin, among others.
