"At a Piano", 1914, oil on canvas, 160 x 150 cm, Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
"Portrait of the Sergeant", 1920, oil on canvas, 63 x 50.5 cm, private collection
"Woman in Red...", 1916(?), oil on canvas, 74 x 65 cm, private collection

"Portrait of Jozef Pilsudski", 1920, Polish Military Museum, Warsaw
"Study for Portrait of Artist's Wife", c. 1905, oil on panel, 71 x 56 cm, National Museum, Szczecin
"By the Light of the Candle", 1914, oil on canvas, 83 x 92 cm, National Museum, Warsaw

"Girl under an Umbrella", after 1904, oil on panel, 18 x 28.5 cm, private collection
"Portrait of Matylda Szednicka", 1922, oil on panel, 35 x 26.5 cm, private collection
"Self-Portrait", 1917, watercolour, 15 x 11 cm, Tatra Museum, Zakopane

Modernism left behind a magnificent gallery of portraits. The majority are likenesses of people in different ways connected with artistic-intellectual milieus, especially those of Warsaw and Cracow. Never before did Polish painters penetrate the psyche of their models, and reach the inner life concealed behind the mask of a face, as was now accomplished by Olga Boznanska or Konrad Krzyzanowski. It was precisely these portraits - nervous, restless, melancholy - which most markedly disclosed decadent autumnal ambience, the waning of an epoch which so readily accentuated its youth. An exception in the pessimistic tones was the radiant affirmation of life and its charms evoked by the paintings of Jozef Mehoffer. [*]

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