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
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
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".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

Two Girls (a portrait study)

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