Sigismund Ivanowski artwork • painting • previously for sale Window shopping in the evening
Sigismund Ivanowski
Kurylówka (Oekraïne) 1875-1944 Westmoreland (Verenigde Staten)
1875-1944
Window shopping in the evening
oil on canvas 50.9 x 81.6 cm
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Kaisley Blake, Westchester, New York; Dorothea F. Blake, Greenwich, Verenigde Staten; John Foley, Southport, Verenigde Staten; veiling Christie's, New York, 28 september 1989, lotnr. 117, alwaar verworven door de vorige eigenaar.
Sigismund Ivanowski lived most of his life in the United States. He became popular there as a painter of portraits, including those of acclaimed Broadway stars and political leaders. His symbolist illustrations were also popular for Century Magazine. The painter was born in 1875 into a noble Ukrainian-Polish family. He attended the academies of St. Petersburg and Munich, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the much freer Académie Julian (1897-1898). Then he was taught by Whistler in London. In 1902 Ivanowski left for the United States, where he would live and work in and around New York.
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