Still-life with apples and a lath basket

This student work by Vytautas Kairiūkštis (1890–1961), painted when the future innovator of Polish and Lithuanian art was still studying in a Russian gymnasium, is special because early works by him are rare. We have more chance of seeing drawings and paintings by his pupils than works by Kairiūkštis himself from his school and student days. We know him as a teacher, and as a mature artist whose great achievement during his early period was to propagate the avant-garde in Polish art. In the 1930s, he succumbed to the charms of Art Deco, and moved from Vilnius to Panevėžys, and later to Kaunas. He painted elegant, lightly coloured landscapes, and bathers on the golden beaches of Palanga.

Text author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album OBJECTS ON SHOW (2017). Compiler and author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė
Expositions: “Académie de Vilna. Vilnius Drawing School (1866–1915)”, 5 October – 26 November 2017, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curator Jolanta Širkaitė). Published: Académie de Vilna: Vilniaus piešimo mokykla 1866-1915 / Vilnius drawing school: Exhibition Catalogue, Nacionalinė dailės galerija 2017 m. 4 d. - lapkričio 26 d., compiled by Jolanta Širkaitė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2017, p. 210.

This student work by Vytautas Kairiūkštis (1890–1961), painted when the future innovator of Polish and Lithuanian art was still studying in a Russian gymnasium, is special because early works by him are rare. We have more chance of seeing drawings and paintings by his pupils than works by Kairiūkštis himself from his school and student days. We know him as a teacher, and as a mature artist whose great achievement during his early period was to propagate the avant-garde in Polish art. In the 1930s, he succumbed to the charms of Art Deco, and moved from Vilnius to Panevėžys, and later to Kaunas. He painted elegant, lightly coloured landscapes, and bathers on the golden beaches of Palanga.

Text author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album OBJECTS ON SHOW (2017). Compiler and author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė
Expositions: “Académie de Vilna. Vilnius Drawing School (1866–1915)”, 5 October – 26 November 2017, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curator Jolanta Širkaitė). Published: Académie de Vilna: Vilniaus piešimo mokykla 1866-1915 / Vilnius drawing school: Exhibition Catalogue, Nacionalinė dailės galerija 2017 m. 4 d. - lapkričio 26 d., compiled by Jolanta Širkaitė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2017, p. 210.