A Meeting

Podkowiński was the first Polish painter to openly declare himself as an Impressionist, following his stay in Paris in 1889. The picture was painted during his visit to Mokra Wieś, a village close to Radzymin, near Warsaw. The artist included himself in this collective portrait of a group of women – as a man sitting on the fence. He looks at a woman in a blue dress, recognisable as Ewa Kotarbińska, wife of his friend as well as the object of the artist’s unhappy and unrequited love.