Kazimierz SICHULSKI (1879-1942), On the Steppe [Four], 1906

oil, canvas; 99 x 180 cm;
Signed and dated l. d.: Sichul / 1906;
On the back, stickers from exhibitions at the Kraków TPSP (no. 1459 with the title "On the Steppe" and "Czwórka") and the Berlin Wertheim Kunstaustellung.
Cf. E. Houszka, "Kazimierz Sichulski. Exhibition Catalogue," National Museum in Wroclaw, Wroclaw 1994.
The works of Sichulski - an Lviv artist, a student of the Lviv Academy of Fine Arts, schools in Vienna, Munich and Paris - include numerous genre scenes. Among other things, "frequent [among them] is the motif, recurring in a modified approach - with two or three horses..." (E. Houszka). In the collection of the National Museum in Wroclaw there is another, larger version of the theme, "Scurrying Horses," painted in 1911.