Head of a Girl

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-665/55а,б
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: Head of a Girl
Date of creation: c.1892 (?)
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 14.1 x 9.3

Additionally

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

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

a) This is a study of the girl’s head. The gaze is directed to the viewer’s left. The face expresses emotions of joy and dreaminess. b) This is a study of the head of a young woman with flowing shoulder-length hair. The head is tilted to the viewer’s right; the focused gaze is directed at the viewer. The defining facial features are a wide nose and full lips.

Inscriptions

а) At the bottom right there is the author monogram.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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