Artist

Zenon Łęski

Zenon Łęski is a Post-Impressionism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at National Museum in Warsaw.

Polish painter Zenon Łęski left small, intimate portraits like Portrait of a man from 1891. Oil on canvas, it shows a single figure in three-quarter view against a neutral background, the brushwork tight enough to read individual hairs in the sitter’s beard. The year 1891 places Łęski squarely in the waning decades of the realist tradition, when artists still prized clear likeness and sober lighting.

His single known work in this bundle offers a quiet doorway: tap Portrait of a man to stand close and read the details on the face.

Works by Zenon Łęski

Collections represented

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