Paris

Paris or the Arc de Triomphe in Paris – Etoile – a painting by Aleksander Jędrzejewski from ca. 1932 made using oil technique on canvas, located in the Gallery of Polish Art 1800-1945 of the Silesian Museum in Katowice.

The Katowice museum purchased the painting at the Moving Art Exhibition in Katowice in 1936. The artist, associated with Wrocław after World War II, depicted the Arc de Triomphe in Paris from a great height. Cars drive around the centrally located monument, passers-by walk on the sidewalks. Streams of smoke are coming from the chimneys of Paris. The painting is signed in the lower right corner: A. Jędrzejewski. Museum no. inv.: MŚK/SzM/397. The work for sizes of 96 × 113 cm. According to the designation of the museum catalog, it is in the public domain.