l.g. (in pencil): 100
On the reverse, on the cardboard "back" inscriptions and stickers:
inscriptions:
- in blue crayon l.g.: Bohdanow - Vilnius | F Ruszczyc | 100
- next to: 1600
- in ink in the middle: Z. 100
stickers:
- with text inscribed in ink p.d.: F. Ruszczyc | Thatch and Cloud | oil on canvas | family's own.
- In the middle (print, typescript): Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow | R. 1937 December No. 2145 /103/ | Author Ferdynand Ruszczyc | Posthumous Exhibition | Address | Work Thatch and Cloud | Execution oil price-; on sticker stamp: POSTHUMAN EXHIBITION | FERD. RUSZCZYCA
- sticker with number inscribed in crayon: 5;
- On the left: Monographic Exhibition | Ferdynand Ruszczyc | National Museum in Cracow | II-IV 2002 | District Museum in Torun | IV-VI 2002 | National Museum in Warsaw | VII-IX 2002 | LDM in Vilnius X-XII 2002
Provenance:
- The painting - painted in Bohdanov - comes from the collection of the Artist's Family.
- Agra-Art auction, June 3, 2012.
Described and reproduced in:
- Catalog of the posthumous exhibition of Ferdynand Ruszczyc's paintings and drawings, Vilnius X 1937, p. 27, cat. no. 100 [owned by the artist's family];
- Ferdynand Ruszczyc 1870-1936, Guide 127, TZSP Warsaw, XI - XII 1937, p. 36, cat. no. 100 [owned by the artist's family];
- Ferdynand Ruszczyc 1870-1936. catalog of posthumous exhibition, TPSP in Kraków, XII 1937 - I 1938, p. 24, cat. no. 103 [owned by the artist's family];
-Ferdynand Ruszczyc. Life and Work. A collective book, Vilnius 1939, il. on p. 370;
- Ferdynand Ruszczyc 1870-1936, catalog . [edited by J. Ruszczycówna], National Museum in Warsaw 1964, p. 58, cat. no. I/109 [owned by the artist's family];
- J. Ruszczycówna, Ferdynand Ruszczyc (1870-1936). Landscapes and Interiors, Exhibition Catalogue, District Museum in Biała Podlaska 1881, p. 11, cat. no. 46;
- Ferdynand Ruszczyc 1870-1936. painter and draftsman, District Museum, Lublin, 1984, p. 16, cat. no. 26;
- F. Ruszczyc, Diary, Part One, Towards Vilnius 1894-1919, [cover selection, compilation and introduction by E. Ruszczyc], Warsaw, 1994, p. 386, ill. 54;
- Ferdynand Ruszczyc 1870-1936. life and work, [S. Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, A. Kroplewska-Gajewska], National Museum in Kraków, Kraków 2002, p. 106, cat. no. 67, il. [owned by the artist's family];
- S. Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Kluszczyński Publishing House, Kraków 2007, il. on p. 84.
Ferdynand Ruszczyc (Bohdanow 1870 - Bohdanow 1936) - prominent painter and pedagogue, adept of the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, where in 1892-1897 he studied under I. I. Shyshkin and A Kuindzhi. His student works were awarded medals from the Academy several times. He traveled extensively as an artist - in 1894 and 1895 he traveled to Crimea, in 1896 and 1897 he traveled via Königsberg and Szczecin to Rügen, Bornholm and southern Sweden, and in 1898 to Berlin, Cologne, Paris, Dunkirk, Ostend, Brussels, Basel, Lucerne, Lugano, Milan, Venice and Vienna. In 1897 he settled in the family estate of Bohdan. Since 1900 he was a member of the Society of Polish Artists "Art". Since 1904 he was a professor at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in 1907-1908 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Later he returned to Vilnius, where he became an animator of the local artistic life. After World War I, he was an organizer and professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. He painted primarily landscapes imbued with a highly emotional feeling for nature and wildlife. Ruszczyc's paintings Earth or Nec Mergitur are among the most outstanding examples of the Symbolist trend in Young Poland painting. He also painted the interiors of his family's manor house in Bohdanov, and was involved in theatrical stage design, illustration and book graphics.
