The Old City Market, Warsaw, at Night
by PANKIEWICZ, Józef, Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm
In 1889, W³adys³aw Podkowiñski and J�zef Pankiewicz of the Warsaw College of Art visited Paris for the World Fair. There they encountered Impressionism, and, through Theo van Gogh, the paintings of C�zanne. The exposition of their own work in Warsaw in 1890 signaled the beginning of Impressionism there.
Pankiewicz combined Impressionist and various Post-Impressionist approaches. In the 1890s he brought an equal intensity to sunlight and nighttime scenes with the light of city streetlamps.