Oil on canvas, signed l.d. "F.Cieśla".
Dimensions in frame: 87x87 cm (80x80 cm).
Franciszek Cieśla (b. 1895)- Polish painter, active between the wars, lecturer. He was a student at the State School of Art Industry in Cracow from 1926/27 to 1928/29. In 1930 he was admitted externally to the final examination in drawing at the State Examination Commission operating at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He exhibited his works in the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow (1925), the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1930 - "Project of the stained glass window 'St. Cecilia'"; 1931 - painting "Tatra Mountains"). In 1930 he lived in Cracow, in 1931 in Nakło, where he taught drawing.
