Vintage, photograph on paper, size 23.9x17.8 cm, signed, signed on back: Warsaw, Botanical Garden "Tulips", signed, 1937.
Zofia Chomętowska - one of the most important and active Polish photographers of the interwar period. She was born in 1902 in Porochońsk, in the aristocratic family of the Drucki-Lubecki dukes. Chomętowska's greatest activity came in the 1930s, when she moved to Warsaw. In the capital she photographed, among other things, the interiors of palaces (Kronenberg's, Koniecpolskis', Blank's and others). As a member of the Polish Photographic Society, she made her debut in the capital at an exhibition in 1932, and from then on she was a participant in the most important national photographic events. In 1937 she won at the exhibition of the "Beauty of Warsaw" competition. She belonged to a small group of Polish artists using a Leica camera. She died in 1991 in Buenos Aires.
"Amateur of Tulips" is an intimate work drawn with light in miniature showing the beauty of Warsaw, the garden city.
