oil on board, 34 x 99 cm, signed with initials and dated lower right, in blue, "G. J. 1922"

Gabriel Jurkić (Livno, 1886 – Livno, 1974) is one of the most significant Croatian painters, particularly appreciated for his poetic landscapes. He studied in the painting classes of B. Čikoš Sesija and M. C. Crnčić, and continued his studies at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. After almost half a century spent in Sarajevo, in 1956 he returned to his native area and settled in the Franciscan monastery Gorica, to which – as well as to the city of Livno – he left his artistic opus. In his earlier period he created romantic landscapes and intimate portraits, but then turned to pointillistic expression, characterized by exceptional light and refined coloration. During the 1920s he developed famous cycles of the four seasons and began to create works of religious themes. His landscapes predominantly show the nature of the Herzegovina-Bosnian landscape – the expanses of the Livno and Kupres fields surrounded by high, often harsh mountains, with frequent motifs of sheep and cattle flocks at watering holes. The depicted winter landscape was created in 1922, at a time when Jurkić reached the peak of creative maturity and held two key exhibitions of his landscapes at the Ulrich Salon in Zagreb.

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