Art Of The Day Weekly
#362 - from 30 October 2014 to 5 November 2014
Olga Boznanska, La Jeune fille aux chrysanthèmes, oil on canvas, Krakow National Museum (restored with the help of Fondation Paribas).
Boznanska, a Pole in Paris
KRAKOW – She is one of the most renowned modern artists of the county. Born in 1865 in Krakow from a French mother, partly educated in Munich, Olga Boznanska settled in Paris at the end of the XIXth century. She was to become a sought-after portrait artist until her death in 1940. The Krakow National Museum received the donation of the contents of her Paris atelier and has confronted 170 of her paintings to the works of some of her contemporaries. The exhibition draws the image of a refined society of the Belle Epoque through her portraits - done in light and hazzy touches - of painters and writers, mondane and elegant ladies.
• Olga Boznanska at the National Museum of Krakow, from 25 October 2014 to 1 February 2015.