oil, paper pasted on paper, 20 x 16 cm
under the painting, inscription (in pencil): Leokadia Lempicka
On the reverse on protective cardboard (in pencil): LEOKADIA LEMPICKA |.
Leokadia Lempicka (before 1865 - Kiev 1913) attended high school in Samara (Kuibyshev) during her exile, together with her family. In 1885 she settled in Warsaw. From about 1886 she studied painting privately in the studio of Wojciech Gerson. In 1890 she took part in an exhibition of pupils of Ludwik Wiesiolowski's school for women in Aleksander Krywult's Salon. At the end of 1892 she traveled to Riga, and in February 1893 she went to Paris for further studies. There she lived with the painter and sculptor Anna Paszkiewiczówna and attended the Académie Julian. In 1897 she was already in Warsaw. She engaged in teaching work, teaching drawing at the Bronislawa Poswikowa School of Painting, and from 1904 at the Aurelia Conti School of Art for Women, where she led evening drawings, the department of decorative arts and ornamental composition. She exhibited her works at salons in Warsaw, Cracow, Vilnius and Paris. In 1904 her solo exhibition was held in the Krywult Salon in Warsaw, and in 1974 14 of her paintings were shown in the foyer of the Pomeranian Philharmonic Hall in Bydgoszcz.
Lempicka painted primarily portraits, for which her children usually posed. She was eager to use pastels, and around 1898 she also took up miniature painting on bone.The painter's works are in the collections of the District Museum in Bydgoszcz, the National Museum in Warsaw.
Słownik Artystów Polskich i Obcych w Polsce działających, vol. V, KRĄG Publishing House, Warsaw 1993, pp. 163-164.
