Head of a Girl

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-665/51
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: Head of a Girl
Date of creation: 1890 ?
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 18.7 x 14.1

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 with flowing ear-length hair. She is looking straight ahead. The lips are stiff. Her face expresses dreaminess.

Inscriptions

At the bottom right there is the author monogram.

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