The battle was immortalized by Marian Mokwa, the best maritime painter in Poland in the 1930s. The series “Apotheosis of Maritime Poland” was created over almost eighteen years and consisted of forty-four paintings exhibited in the Maritime Gallery built by the artist in Gdynia. Only one painting from the entire series has survived, recently discovered, and is currently in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk.

The museum also has in its collection an unknown sketch with a similar theme (purchased from private owners), which was given to us for conservation as part of our cooperation.

The large, free-form sketch came to us in a very poor state of preservation. We do not know what happened to it during World War II, but its condition indicates that it was cut from the painting looms and cut into three pieces. Perhaps to be removed from the studio and stored in a safer place, or perhaps to be stolen.