Pejzaż
Landscape
- Year
- 1988
- Material
- watercolour
- Dimensions
- 30 × 40 cm
- Location
- private collection
- Related works
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- Widok na jezioro, 1984 Open the catalogue entry → The first of the lakes: the same clear water, the same distant sails.
The work
In August 1988, in eight days, Antonina fills at least seven sheets and signs each one with the name of the place: Sarnówek. On the 17th the wooded bank with its wooden fence; on the 19th the lake seen through the branches of a pine, the far shore reduced to a band of fields; on the 22nd the water at sunset, the sky in pink and yellow bands and three white sails in the distance; on the 23rd a spray of wild rose with a single flower at its tip; on the 24th, twice on the same day, a sheaf of dry reeds and the lake again, but grey.
They are watercolours painted on the spot, and it shows: the colour is laid down quickly, the paper is left bare where the sheet must breathe, the drawing does not go back to correct itself. In a single week her whole idea of landscape is there — the wide view and the close detail, the water and the plant, taken with the same brush.