Symbolic Dance (1898)
Here is a lovely and seductive painting by the Polish painter Jan Ciągliński (1858-1913). Although born in Poland he spent most of his career, other than a brief time in Paris. based in St Petersburg, Russia. In his will, however, he bequeathed most of his works to Poland and many of them were on exhibition in Warsaw over the last few months.
At the toilet (1909)
Symbolic Dance was painted in 1896 and is a frank portrait of two women, giving a real sense of two models captured in the studio. He produced a number of nudes and all have the same understated sensuality about them.
Kiss of the sun (1907)
He visited North Africa and the Middle East and painted a number of orientalist pictures, of the realistic, rather than the harem fantasy, type. He taught at the Imperial Academy in St Petersburg and became a professor there in 1911. teaching many well known Russian painters.
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