Lot 65053: BRONISLAW JAMONTT (Polish, 1886-1957) Romantic

BRONISLAW JAMONTT (Polish, 1886-1957) Romantic Landscape , 1935 Oil on heavy handmade paper laid down on artists' cardboard 28-1/2 x 36-1/2 inches (72.4 x 92.7 cm) Signed and dated lower right: Bronislaw Jamontt z Wilna XXXV PROVENANCE: Private collection. EXHIBITED: Carnegie International Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, no. 240 (label verso of backing board). A slightly smaller work with a similar arrangement of motifs from 1929 is in the National Museum in Warsaw. Jamontt produced the present landscape the same year he became chair of the art department at the University of Vilnius. He was an important educator and a founding member of the Vilnius Society of Artists.