Oil on panel. Signed lower right.
The pictorial production of Franke, an artist of Polish origin who trained and lived in Munich, is characterized by genre scenes or eighteenth-century settings or oriental subjects; however, they are all characterized by liveliness of movement and colour, extremely lively scenes of life with figures frozen in curious, almost exaggerated poses.
In this painting the man in an elegant suit with frock coat and wig, leans inelegantly on the table, intent on reading, with a pencil in his mouth.
His brightly colored figure emerges from the surrounding environment - a studio - more in the shade.
The work is presented in an early 1900s setting.
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