Caption

Two windmills, Leon Wyczólkowski (1852–1936), 1912. Ceratorite print with chine-collé (grayish Chinese paper glued over thin white cardboard), height 34.6 cm, width 48.5 cm. Drawing made with soft chalk; rural landscape of a village with windmills. Signed in pencil under the composition: L. Wyczólkowski, 1912. Description: foreground formed by a strip of dynamically shaded, transparent clods of earth marked flat with chalk; town rendered as a linear, shadowless cluster of roofs surrounded by a soft, gray painterly surface of meadows with patches of trees.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A39_391

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Rights managed

Available size

74.2Mb (9.4Mb) / 20.0in x 14.4in / 6000 x 4324 (300dpi)

Keywords

Two windmills Leon Wyczólkowski 1852–1936 1912 Ceratorite print chine-collé grayish Chinese paper glued thin white cardboard height 34.6 cm width 48.5 cm Drawing soft chalk rural landscape village windmills Signed pencil under composition L Wyczólkowski Description foreground formed strip dynamically shaded transparent clods earth marked flat chalk town rendered linear shadowless cluster roofs surrounded soft gray painterly surface meadows patches trees image grayscale sketch landscape two windmills gently sloping field larger windmill right visible angled sails cylindrical body smaller windmill stands farther back center differently foreground consists broad sweeping brushstrokes suggesting textured ground wispy cloud- marks sky visible colors shades black gray off-white cream.