Lot 119. JÓZEF PAWLIKIEWICZ, PROBABLY ANNA MAY-RICHTER (1864-1955). Reunion of three drawings Man in front of Saint Sophia – The call to prayer in Turkey – Dervishes singing. Watercolor and graphite on paper/ Signed and two located ‘Stanbul (Istanbul)’ lower left and right (Traces of adhesive and some foxing). A set of three drawings, watercolor and graphite on paper, signed and located lower left and right 45 x 30,5 cm – 17 3/4 x 12 in. 45 x 29 cm – 17 3/4 x 11 3/8 in. 30 x 44 cm – 11 3/4 x 17 3/8 in. Provenance Private collection, France

Od jakiegoś czasu pojawia się sugestia, że Józef Pawlikiewicz to właściciwie Anna May (1865 – 1955), czyli partnerka Tadeusza Rychtera, byłego męża Bronisławy Rychter-Janowskiej. Większość prac Anny May rozgrywa się w Jerozolimie natomiast Józef Pawlikiewicz tworzył widoki Stambułu. Należy obserwować inne akawarele, które pojawią się w przyszłości bo może sie okazać, że to jest rzeczywiście ta sama osoba. Ciąg dalszy na pewno nastąpi.

Note Anna May-Rychter (Regensburg 1864-1955), probably active under the pseudonym Józef Pawlikiewicz, was an early 20th-century realist painter best known for her watercolors of the Holy Land. She studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, where Nikolaos Gyzis was one of her teachers. She was the companion of Polish artist Tadeusz Rychter. They did not marry, as the Catholic Church did not recognize divorce, and Tadeusz had already married the Krakow artist Bronislawa Janowska. According to Haaretz, social disapproval of their unmarried relationship was the reason why the couple left Europe and settled in Jerusalem. In 1939, Tadeusz went to Poland on a professional mission and died in Warsaw during the Second World War. May-Rychter continued to live in the Arabic-speaking neighborhoods of East Jerusalem until his death in 1955, at the age of 90. In 2014, the Palestinian Heritage Foundation and the Jerusalem Fund sponsored an exhibition of May-Rychter’s watercolors.

Estimate 400 – 600 euro. Aguttes. 06/27/23. Sold 650 euro