Moshe Rynecki Paintings at the National Museum in Warsaw

For the last few months I have worked quite hard to track down several of my great grandfather’s paintings that I’d recently learned about.  I am still working on obtaining images from several different sources, but in the meantime am happy to enjoy gazing at images of two paintings I received from the Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (The National Museum in Warsaw).  As to how the Museum came to have the paintings in their possession, I was told that in 1963 an individual (a man) sold the paintings to the museum.  When pressed for more information (e.g., who was this man? how did he have the paintings? did he have others? what was his name?) I was told that the museum tried to contact him but that since their original contact with him was almost 50 years ago that they really were unable to find him and that they doubted he was still living.

I don’t think the Museum has these paintings on display on a regular basis.  I got the impression that they had to pull them out of storage to accommodate my request.  They kindly did so and had their photographer (Ligier Piotr) did take some really nice and high quality images.  I share those here with you:

W Parku (In a Park), 1935

Talmudysci (The Talmudists), undated

If you’re traveling to Warsaw, Poland, and you want to see the paintings, I’m guessing you’d have to call ahead and schedule a special viewing.  The inventory numbers for these paintings are: Rys.W.2146 and Rys.W.2145.  You can find them at the Muzeum Nardowe w Warszawie.  Let me know if you go and see them!  I’d love to hear about it.