Wladyslaw Slewinsky (1854 - 1918) Poland. Watercolor on Paper. Measure 13"in H x 11"in W and 23 3/4"in H x 19 3/4"in W with frame. He was born to a landowning family and his mother died in childbirth. His cousin , the painter Jozef Chełmonski, noticed his artistic talent and advised his father to enroll him at the drawing school operated by Wojciech Gerson. His father of him resisted at first, but finally agreed.In 1886, he inherited his family's properties in Pilaszkowice Pierwsze, which soon led to his financial ruin from him. Two years later, hounded by Russian tax collectors, he fled to Paris, where he first decided to take up painting as a career. From 1888 to 1890, he studied at the Academie Colarossi and the Académie Julian.In 1889 he made friends with Paul Gauguin and became associated with the School of Pont-Aven; he spending most of his time at Le Pouldu in Brittany. He was an exhibitor at the Salon des Independants in 1895 and 1896.From 1905 to 1910, he was back in Poland, serving briefly as a Professor at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts and opening his own art school. In 1910, I have returned to France. He died in the Hopital Cochin and was buried in Bagneux.

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