Signature p.d.: K. Stabrowski
On the reverse p.d. in pencil: 150
The painting is one version of Mists over the Morskie Oko (oil painting under this title was exhibited in the Salon of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Guide No. 29, December 1927, cat. 311).
Kazimierz Stabrowski (Kruplany near Novogrudok 1869 - Garwolin 1929) - painter, draughtsman, teacher; studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg from 1887. During his studies he received medals and decorations several times. In 1893 he traveled to Palestine in connection with, painted for his diploma, a painting of Muhammad in the desert, for which he later received a great gold medal. Despite his graduation, from 1895 he still trained in the studio of I.J.Riepin. In 1897 he went to Paris and attended the Académie Julian there, working under B.Constants and J.P.Laurens. In 1898 he returned to St. Petersburg. In 1900, at the Universal Exhibition in Paris, he received a great silver medal for his painting Silence in the Countryside. He also participated in other international exhibitions, including Munich (1901), Venice (1903). Since 1902 he was a member of the Association of Polish Artists Art. In 1903 he moved to Warsaw, where in 1904 he became the first director of the School of Fine Arts, being one of the initiators of its establishment. In 1909-1913 he traveled a lot - he was in France, Ni
