Well, it’s priceless in the film anyway!

The Thistle Flowers – a still life crucial for the plot of our film has been painted by Kajetan Karczewski, a young, talented student of the University of Arts in Poznań. It took him 10 days to complete this fake impressionistic work, using oil paints on canvas.

The Thistle Flowers

The ready painting was then set in a genuine 19th-century gilded frame by a specialised conservation studio run by a renowned local craftsman Jan Dondajewski.

The painting depicts a bouquet of thistle flowers in a blue vase against a bright-coloured wall.

In the right bottom corner of the painting there is the painter’s signature: “F. Beaumont”, in accordance with the script. Of course, this mysterious, somewhat forgotten master is just as fictitious as the most famous of his paintings.

Kajetan’s inspirations included, among others, the works of Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

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