The painting from 1931 (oil, canvas, 40 x 50 cm) presents a building that fills almost the entire space of the canvas. The butcheries are located on the Small Market Square in Kazimierz. They used to be part of the Jewish section of the town. The red building has a high wooden roof. The bright red of the lower part of the wall is the main accent of the painting. Combined with the brown of the upper wooden part of the building and the roof, and the dark brown of the earth, it creates a colour-harmonised composition. The irregular shape of the building with a step on the left is covered with a pediment roof with a dormer. The red walls have four doorways, emphasised with the use of black. On both sides of the butcheries, there are houses in the background. behind them, there is a softly outlined hill, its greenery broken by accents of red. The outline of the hill refers to the gentle curve of the land forming the space in front of the butcheries, in the foreground. On the bottom right, there is a signature: "Sam. Finkelstein 1931".
Samuel Finkelstein (1891–1942) – painter, member of the artistic group "Start" and "Jednoróg" Artists' Guild. He began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, and moved to Vienna to study at the Academy of Fine Arts later on. Then, he was associated with Łódź. He exhibited his works in, e.g., Warsaw at the Jewish Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts. Like many Jewish artists, he used to come to open-air workshops in Kazimierz Dolny, which was for him a symbol of the universal shtetl. During World War II, he was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp.
