BRONISLAW JAMONTT (Polish, 1886-1957). Paysage Romantique (Romantic Landscape) , 1935. Oil on heavy handmade paper laid ...

Description

BRONISLAW JAMONTT (Polish, 1886-1957)
Paysage Romantique (Romantic Landscape) , 1935
Oil on heavy handmade paper laid down on artists' cardboard
28-1/2 x 36-1/2 inches (72.4 x 92.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Bronislaw Jamontt z Wilna XXXV

PROVENANCE:
Private collection.

EXHIBITED:
Carnegie International Exhibition, 1937, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, no. 240 (label verso of backing board "Paysage Romantique").

LITERATURE:
Peter Hastings Falk, ed., Record of the Carnegie Institute's International Exhibitions 1896-1996, Madison, CT, 1998, p. 168.

A slightly smaller work with a similar arrangement of motifs from 1929 is in the National Museum in Warsaw. Jamontt produced the present landscape the same year he became chair of the art department at the University of Vilnius. He was an important educator and a founding member of the Vilnius Society of Artists.

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