DOI Artikel:
Danielewicz, Iwona: The Collection of Gabriela Zapolska
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18947#0126
the exhibition catalogue; among the 25 works was a painting and sculpture
by Gauguin, paintings by van Gogh, Seurat, Anąuetin, Pissarro, Serusier,
Ranson, Pankiewicz, Mirosław Peszke, as well as an unknown artist van Mois,
two drawings by Olga Boznańska, and a bas-relief by Georges Lacombe.33
The exhibition roused a certain interest in the artistic milieu in Galicia;
extensive reviews appeared, although cold and very critical in their evaluation
of the new trends: “It is frightening that from [...] paintings struggling with
banality, in spite of amassing simultaneously sometimes to raw realism,
unopposed subtle artistic feelings, the eternal hunt for new currents and thus
the same elements found in Zapolska’s entire łiterary output.”14 These works
nevertheless encountered misunderstanding and elicited rather negative opinions
from the critics. Gazeta Lwowska wrote: “The sick fruit of these imaginations
sometimes cali forth impossible things of mistaken drawing and strange
colouring. Massiveness and spatial perspective are also disdained, because
Japanese art, the godmother of contemporary art, doesn’t have them.”35
Zapolska exhibited her collection again in 1910 in the buildmg of the Cracow
Society of the Friends of the Fine Arts at the XIV Exhibition of the “Sztuka”
Society of Polish Artists.1' In addition to the works seen earlier in Lwów, four
new works were exhibited: sculpture by Gauguin and Graal, an artist unknown
today, as well as paintings by Serusier and Lacombe. At the end of 1910,
motivated by the need of money for traveling expenses, increasingly costly
cures, and the upkeep of her villa outside Lwów, Zapolska sent three of the
most valuable works from her collection, paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin,
and Seurat, to the Bernheim Jeune Gallery in Munich with the intention of
selling them. She turned to Paul Cazin, a French writer and translator of
Polish literaturę, with the reąuest for the current prices of works by the
aforementioned pamters. “Could you tell me the prices that are being paid
today in Paris for paintings by Paul Gauąuin (sic!), van Gogh, and for studies
by Seurat [...] Bernheim Junior wrote and telegraphed me with an offer to
purchase a few paintings. Yesterday evening I sent him a Gauguin, a van Gogh,
and a study by Seurat. He wrote ‘Please give me the prices’ and I don’t know
what to say, sińce I no longer know the prices of works by such great
masters.”’ It appear from this letter that Zapolska sent Bernheim Jeune three
works from her collection on December 13, 1910. Jadwiga Czachowska
reports that these works were sold on December 20 of that year in the Paris
gallery of Bernheim-Jeune for the sum of 2,500 francs. In the spring of 1915,
seekmg income when she was not receiving author’s fees as a result of the war,
33 Wystawa obrazów..., op. cit.
34 W Dąbrowski, “Meteor”, Nowa Reforma, 1906, no. 118.
35 Justus, “Z naszych wystaw. II wystawa nieustająca Towarzystwa przyjaciół sztuk pięknych”,
Gazeta Lwowska, May 26, 1906, no. 120, p. 4.
36 Katalog XIV. Wystawy Towarzystwa Artystów Polskich “Sztuka” w Krakowie, Towarzystwo
Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych, Kraków 1910; Polskie Zycie Artystyczne..., op. cit., p. 100.
37 Listy..., op. cit., II, p. 508.
38 Czachowska, Gabriela Zapolska, op. cit., p. 333.
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by Gauguin, paintings by van Gogh, Seurat, Anąuetin, Pissarro, Serusier,
Ranson, Pankiewicz, Mirosław Peszke, as well as an unknown artist van Mois,
two drawings by Olga Boznańska, and a bas-relief by Georges Lacombe.33
The exhibition roused a certain interest in the artistic milieu in Galicia;
extensive reviews appeared, although cold and very critical in their evaluation
of the new trends: “It is frightening that from [...] paintings struggling with
banality, in spite of amassing simultaneously sometimes to raw realism,
unopposed subtle artistic feelings, the eternal hunt for new currents and thus
the same elements found in Zapolska’s entire łiterary output.”14 These works
nevertheless encountered misunderstanding and elicited rather negative opinions
from the critics. Gazeta Lwowska wrote: “The sick fruit of these imaginations
sometimes cali forth impossible things of mistaken drawing and strange
colouring. Massiveness and spatial perspective are also disdained, because
Japanese art, the godmother of contemporary art, doesn’t have them.”35
Zapolska exhibited her collection again in 1910 in the buildmg of the Cracow
Society of the Friends of the Fine Arts at the XIV Exhibition of the “Sztuka”
Society of Polish Artists.1' In addition to the works seen earlier in Lwów, four
new works were exhibited: sculpture by Gauguin and Graal, an artist unknown
today, as well as paintings by Serusier and Lacombe. At the end of 1910,
motivated by the need of money for traveling expenses, increasingly costly
cures, and the upkeep of her villa outside Lwów, Zapolska sent three of the
most valuable works from her collection, paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin,
and Seurat, to the Bernheim Jeune Gallery in Munich with the intention of
selling them. She turned to Paul Cazin, a French writer and translator of
Polish literaturę, with the reąuest for the current prices of works by the
aforementioned pamters. “Could you tell me the prices that are being paid
today in Paris for paintings by Paul Gauąuin (sic!), van Gogh, and for studies
by Seurat [...] Bernheim Junior wrote and telegraphed me with an offer to
purchase a few paintings. Yesterday evening I sent him a Gauguin, a van Gogh,
and a study by Seurat. He wrote ‘Please give me the prices’ and I don’t know
what to say, sińce I no longer know the prices of works by such great
masters.”’ It appear from this letter that Zapolska sent Bernheim Jeune three
works from her collection on December 13, 1910. Jadwiga Czachowska
reports that these works were sold on December 20 of that year in the Paris
gallery of Bernheim-Jeune for the sum of 2,500 francs. In the spring of 1915,
seekmg income when she was not receiving author’s fees as a result of the war,
33 Wystawa obrazów..., op. cit.
34 W Dąbrowski, “Meteor”, Nowa Reforma, 1906, no. 118.
35 Justus, “Z naszych wystaw. II wystawa nieustająca Towarzystwa przyjaciół sztuk pięknych”,
Gazeta Lwowska, May 26, 1906, no. 120, p. 4.
36 Katalog XIV. Wystawy Towarzystwa Artystów Polskich “Sztuka” w Krakowie, Towarzystwo
Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych, Kraków 1910; Polskie Zycie Artystyczne..., op. cit., p. 100.
37 Listy..., op. cit., II, p. 508.
38 Czachowska, Gabriela Zapolska, op. cit., p. 333.
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