Dimensions: 50 x 60 x 20 cm
Signed on the base: 'Boleslaus Biegas'
Inscribed on the back of the base: 'Felia Litvinne Brunnhilde'.
contemporary casting
edition: 8/8
Exhibited
Théâtre Fémina, Paris, April 20-May 10, 1912 (plaster)
Exhibited at the artist's studio, 3 bis rue de Bagneux, Paris, May 7, 1911 (plaster)
Literature
Xavier Deryng, Boleslas Biegas, Paris 2011, p. 114 (ill.) (ill. plaster model p. 275)
Boleslas Biegas. Sculptures-Peintures, exhibition catalog, Trianon de Bagatelle, Paris 1992, p. 322 (il., plaster reproduced on the invitation to the artist's exhibition in 1911)
Biography
One of the most prominent modernist Polish sculptors. Studied sculpture from 1896 to 1901 at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts under A. Daun and K. Laszczka. In 1901 he was expelled from the academy for his sculptures "The Book of Life," which were surrounded by an atmosphere of scandal. Thanks to a scholarship from the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, he went to Paris, where - with breaks for trips to Poland - he remained for the rest of his life. He exhibited in Vienna - he was a member of the Secession there - St. Petersburg (1903), Kiev, as well as Rome and Amsterdam. Influenced by the philosophy of Stanislaw Przybyszewski, he created allegorical and symbolic sculptures and paintings - he began painting under the influence of Stanislaw Wyspianski around 1900. - With themes that convey the drama of human existence. He created fantasy scenes, busts and nudes.
