Dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 cm (light framed)
other titles: "Nude of a girl in bedclothes", "Nude".
on the reverse an inventory sticker of Jerzy Ficowski's collection described: 'Bruno Schulz - Nude (with the characteristic | ugly face of the daughter of a Ukrainian lawyer from Dro- |hobych, Miss Kuziar - appearing quite often in Schulz's r- | suns), ca. 1933, pencil - paper, 15 x 19. | reprod. in: Catalog of the exhibition at the Muz. Literatura in W-wa, 1995 | No. 196, cat. no. 523 | JFicowski'.
Origins
collection of Jerzy Ficowski (1924-2006), writer and expert on Bruno Schulz's works, Warsaw
collection of Grazyna Kulczyk
Exhibited
Bruno Schulz. Ad Memoriam, Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw, 1995
Literature
Book of paintings - Bruno Schulz, compiled by. Jerzy Ficowski, Warsaw 2012, pp. 313-314 (ill.)
Paweł Leszkowicz, Collection of Grażyna Kulczyk, Poznań 2007, p. 59
Bruno Schulz 1892 - 1942, catalogue-memoir of the exhibition "Bruno Schulz. Ad Memoriam", Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw, ed. by Wojciech Chmurzyński, cat. no. 196, p. 279 (il.)
The drawings of Bruno Schulz, ed. by Jerzy Ficowski, Evanston 1990, cat. no. 64, p. 115 (ill.)
Biography
Bruno Schulz was born on July 12, 1892 in Drohobych, to a family of assimilated Galician Jews. He is primarily known as a writer, author of Cinnamon Shops (1934) and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1937), but was also a painter, graphic artist and draftsman. Beginning in 1924, he worked as a teacher of drawings at a junior high school in Drohobych. Schulz's artwork - with its subject matter and special dreamlike mood - is connected with his writing; some drawings are illustrations to his own works. In 1920- 22, using the cliché-verre technique, he produced a series of more than twenty engravings of a specifically erotic nature collected in The Book of the Idol. He also created oil paintings, but these works, now lost, are mostly known only from old photographs. The only surviving canvas is Meeting (1920), a painting that recently appeared on the antiquarian market and later found its way into the collection of the Warsaw Museum of Literature. In the 1920s and 1930s, the artist showed his prints and paintings several times, including at exhibitions at Warsaw's Zachęta Gallery (1922), TPSP in Lviv (1922), Vilnius (1923), Lviv and Truskavets (1930), and TPSP in Krakow (1931).
