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WASHERWOMEN, FUEL FOR WINTER - painting by Maria Magiera
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WASHERWOMEN, FUEL FOR WINTER - painting by Maria Magiera
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DownloadWhat does this material present?Barbara Badowska, Maria Magiera's daughter, says about the painting:
"The next painting depicts two women, these are sisters, their name was Gużyńcówny, they lived in Roczyny below today's church, they were, as she said, old maids, why did I notice that they were old maids? We are talking about the times before World War I, that is, the times when an unmarried woman was ignored by the environment, they were lucky enough that there were two of them, they lived together below today's church in Roczyny and often – twice a week – of course they walked barefoot, as I said, to the forest in the foothills and again the same thing, they had to have a permit from the forester, from the gamekeeper to be able to collect brushwood. They collected brushwood, what was lying on the ground, and then, when everything was collected, they had a ball tied to them on a long pole in my mother's potatoes near the mountains, at the Walusiaks' and they went and cut off the twigs, those that were dry, fir, som...
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