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Two Girls (a portrait study)

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-II-51
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: Two Girls (a portrait study)
Date of creation: 1894
Technique: drawing
Material: pastel paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 58.8 x 44.5

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: portraiture
Provenance: Collection of Boleslaw Orzechowicz

Information about author

Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Artist's lifetime: 1869–1907
Biography: Stanislaw Wyspianski was born in 1869 in Krakow. He studied at the Jagiellonian University and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was a member of the Young Poland movement, and art editor of the weekly Życie (Life). Stanislaw Wyspianski is known as a playwright and poet, modernist painter, and designer. The artist died in November 1907. He was buried in Krakow.

Object description

This is a portrait of two young girls that are depicted against the wall; they are wearing red dresses with white collars. The figure on the right is turned three quarters to the viewer’s left. A shorter girl is depicted with her hair flowing down to her shoulders. The portrayed girls are characterized by sad facial expressions; their lips are stiff. The dominant feature of the work is the wide-open large eyes of the girls.

Inscriptions

At the bottom left there is an inscription "Stanisław Wyspiański Lwów 1894".

Two Girls (a portrait study)

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