A Game of Chess.

MARKOWICZ, ARTUR.

Cracow, c. 1930

Pastel on paper, laid down on board. Signed by artist lower right. Exhibition label on verso: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pieknych w Krakowie (“Friends of the Fine Arts Society, Cracow.”) Elaborate glass-fronted gilt frame.

Artur Markowicz (1872-1934) was a Jewish Realist painter and graphic artist born in Cracow, Poland. Between the years 1896 and 1903 he studied art in the cities of Munich, Berlin and Paris. He spent the years 1907-08 in Jerusalem. Markowicz’s Jewish scenes and character-studies display a strong originality with influences of Symbolism, along with elements of Expressionism.