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[ribinadarya]

Dear experts, I inherited from my grandmother went to painting - oil on canvas. That is, in fact, the painting itself. In the lower left corner is the signature - I do not know in what language it is, I cite to the letter: "Alfred ZMVDA (where the dash over the letter Z as the accent), 954 (Above figures too small dash) - Andrzej Potiebnia na tozu smierci - skata 4. III.1853. "Help to learn something about this picture - whether the frame or can be ordered back to antrisol ..

[раскатов]

Alfred Zmuda (1897 - 1966), a Polish artist. Your picture on a historical theme of the Polish uprising.
 (1863-1864 gg.) Scythe as a weapon must have been very well establish itself in the hands of the rebels as soon witness the uprising, an observer from the Swiss General Staff, Lieutenant-Colonel F. von Erlach wrote in his book Guerrilla Warfare in Poland in 1863, that It was "one of the most terrible weapons," and that "detachment kosinerov already on the march, when from time to time heard the muffled sound of accidentally hitting each other braid, made a terrible impression ... Their view from a distance more frightened than the joy of infantry or cavalry.
   Personally kosinerov leading the attack, March 5, 1863 died revolutionary Andrzej Potebnya.

[Wladzislaw]

Work of Alfred Zhmuydy not particularly sold in Poland.
Maximum of 4,600 zlotys in 2004.


But the historical theme is always better to be sold.


Because
Potebnya came from the Ukrainian noble family had better try to sell to Ukraine.