The Basket Seller

This group, including what is considered by many to be the most beautiful Polish etching of past centuries, constitutes a majority of all known etchings done by Płoński.

12 additional sketches encircling the central image, counter-clockwise:
a. Two Men Carrying a Coffer
b. Head of a Boy
c. Bust of a Man and Woman
d. Head of a Man
e. Peasant Woman Seated with a Child
f. Man in Cart Pulled by Dogs
g. Seated Peasant
h. Head of a Woman in a Veil
i. Head of an Old Man and a Young Man
j. Head of a Boy
k. Standing Peasant Couple
l. Landscape

PROVENANCE:
Dr. Joseph A Malejka, New York.
Z. Michael Legutko, Lipert Gallery.
The Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection.