Soter Jaxa-Malachowski, SS TORUŃ

35.4 x 50 cm - gouache, watercolor, paper glued on cardboard

Signed p.d.: S. Jaxa

On the back the artist's stamp (seal, ink): Title Toruń | Size 35 x 50 | Price 8800 | SOTER JAXA MAŁACHOWSKI | Address [ KRAKÓW, ul. Pilsudkiego 32].

SS Torun is a bulk carrier built in the French shipyard in Caen in 1925. Together with its twin ships: SS Wilno, SS Katowice, SS Poznan and SS Krakow, they were usually called "coal carriers" or, precisely because of their origin, "Frenchmen." The ship sailed, carrying Polish coal, mainly on the Baltic and North Sea.

Soter Jaxa Malachowski (1867 - 1952) - began his artistic studies at the drawing school in Odesa. Then - in 1892-1894 he studied at the Cracow School of Fine Arts under Florian Cynk, Izydor Jablonski and Wladyslaw Luszczkiewicz, and after 1894 also at the private school of Stanislaw Grocholski in Munich. After returning to Poland from 1902 he lived permanently in Cracow, from where he moved to Zakopane for two years. In 1905, 1925 and 1928 he traveled to Italy. He painted mainly landscapes - seascapes, nocturnes and Tatra motifs and city views. On rare occasions he also created portraits of a "purely familial nature." The artist's best works were created before the First World War; later, faced with the need to earn a living, he often duplicated his own ideas. He participated in many exhibitions, including in Lviv, Warsaw, Lviv, Lodz, Poznan, Lublin; he also had several solo exhibitions in Lviv.