Collection

Head of a Girl

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-665/26
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: Head of a Girl
Date of creation: 1890
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 20.3 x 16.4

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: portraiture
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery

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 study of the girl’s head. Her shoulder-length hair is framed by a headband. The head is slightly tilted forward; the gaze is directed downwards. The artist skillfully depicted the facial features, namely a small nose and small stiff full lips. Her facial expression resembles indifference or detachment.

Inscriptions

On the right lower side of the work there is the author monogram. At the bottom left there is a date.

Head of a Girl

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