Artur MARKOWICZ (1872-1934) Three sketchbooks comprising portraits, landscapes, groups, composition studies... : - One dated from 29 I 1922 to 3 VII 1922, located Krakow (Kołłątaja 2) comprising about 200 sketches. 17 x 20 cm - One dated 5/07/1922, located Krakow (Kołłątaja 2) featuring approximately 250 sketches. 17 x 20 cm (one signed - One dated VII 1923, located Krakow (2, Kołłątaja) and Ahlbeck (Dumenstr. 6), featuring approx. 100 sketches. 20.5 x 17 cm (including two drawings located Berlin, dated 1923; two others located Ahlbeck, one titled "walne zebranie czytelni towarzyskiej 1923". Attached are a few drawings on loose leaves and a small sketch on a map of the Towarzystwo przyjaciół sztuk pięknych w Krakowie of 17 XII 1927. Freckles, loose leaves, bindings damaged. Artur Markowicz, born in Krakow to a Jewish family, studied at the end of the 19th century at the Academy of Fine Arts with Wladyslaw Łuszczkiewicz and Jan Matejko. He continued his studies in Munich with Otto Seitz, before finally taking courses in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme. He returned to Krakow in 1904; he is best known for his depictions of daily life in the Jewish quarter of Kazimierz. [POLONICA, POLISH ART]