Signed, lower right: Witold Wojtkiewicz | Kraków 1906

Marked, two paper exhibition labels, damaged, overlapping: Adres... | dzielo Phingsten in Bielany bei Krakau | ....tempera cena 1000 | Towarzystwo Przyjacjól Sztuk Pieknych w K [rakowie]

ca. 1907, collection of André Gide (Paris, France)

by descent to his daughter, Catherine Gide

by descent, the son of Catherine Gide

Jean-Pierre Bosc (Paris, France)

(Alain Clairet, Paris, France)

1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Exposition Witold Wojtkiewicz. Exh. cat., Galerie E. Druet. Paris, 1907, n.p., cat. 1 [preface by André Gide]. Pieńkowski, S. "Witold Wojtkiewicz," KtosY: Miesięcznik illustrowany poświęcony szutkom plastycznym, teatrowi, muzyce i literaturze, 1, 6 (May 1914): (ill. on cover). Domańska, B. Witold Wojtkiewicz 1879-1909. Exh. cat., Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie. Krakow, 1989, vol. 2, no. 29, p. 47 [as Carrousel and in unknown location]. Ficowski, J. W sierocińcu świata: Rzecz o Witoldzie Wojtkiewiczu. Warsaw, 1993, p. 71, (ill. on the cover). Ficowski, J. Witold Wojtkiewicz. Łowicz, 1996, p. 52, 201 (ill.). Bulletin of the DIA 65, no. 2-3 (1989): p. 15, (fig. 10, repr.). Grabska , E. “Lʼarrière-garde de lʼavant-garde: la colonie artistique polonaise à Paris 1905-1914,” in Gérard Monnier and José Vovelle, eds., Un art sans frontiers: L’internationalisation des arts en Europe (1900-1950). Paris, 1995, pp. 79-93 (ill.). Juszczak, W. Wojtkiewicz i nowa sztuka. Warsaw, 1965; Kraków, 2000, p. 112 (ill.). Kossowska, I. “Akwarele, pastele, rysunki, litografie,” in Elżbieta Charazińska et al., Ceremonie: Witold Wojtkiewicz 1879–1909. Exh. cat., Muzeum Narodowe. Warsaw, 2004, p. 113, under no. 37. Charazinska, E., et al. Witold Wojtkiewicz 1879-1909: Une fable polonaise. Exh. cat., Musée de Grenoble. Grenoble, 2004, p. 37 [as Carrousel; not in exhibition]. Chudzicka, D. “Reconsidering Witold Wojtkiewicz’s Pentecost Holiday Fair near Kraków,” Bulletin of the DIA 95, no. 1 (2021): pp. 40-51; (ill. fig. 1), p. 40; (details figs. 7-9) p. 45; (fig. 10), p. 46 [label from back].

Witold Wojtkiewicz, Pentecost Holiday Fair near Cracow, 1906, tempera and/or oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Polish Art Fund, 1988.63.