8. Karl Witkowski (American, 1860-1910)

Young Woman with Chrysanthemum.
Oil on canvas, signed upper left and inscribed copyright 1900, framed.
12" x 10-1/4".

Karl Witkowski was an Austrian-born portraitist who trained under Jan Matejko in Poland, and eventually settled in the United States. He died in Newark, New Jersey. This romantic painting of a young girl is deceptively simple. The foreshortening of her face as it tilts back in space is a difficult pose impeccably rendered, and shows Witkowski's roots as a classically trained academic painter.

1,000/3,000     SOLD: $1,393.93

Condition: excellent, small chip in pigment on chin.