Portrait of a Girl – Zofia Sokołowska

Boznańska employs a soft, impressionistic handling of paint, allowing subtle tonal variations to model the girl’s features. The limited color scheme—dark hair and dress contrasted with a red bow—focuses attention on the sitter’s face, while the gray background recedes, creating depth through delicate brushwork and atmospheric shading.

Since its completion in 1900, the portrait has been part of the collection of the National Museum in Kraków. The museum acquired the piece as a representative example of Boznańska’s early twentieth‑century portraiture, preserving it within its holdings of Polish modern art.