Dimensions: 42 x 30 x 19 cm
Signed and dated on the base: 'Olga Niewska 1927'
on the back of the base an imprint of Lopienski Brothers Foundry in Warsaw
Exhibited
Olympic Competition of Art and Literature, City Museum, Amsterdam, June 12-August 12, 1928 (probably a different casting)
Literature
compare Wojciech Przybyszewski, Olga Niewska. Beauty behind the curtain of oblivion, Poznań 2001, pp. 91-92 and fig. 45
compare: "Sagittarius" - sculpture by Olga Niewska, 1927, view of the sculpture from behind [awarded the Prize of the Minister of the Interior], Digital MNW
compare Concours et exposition d'art olympique. Catalogue de l'exposition au Musée municipal d'Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1928, cat. no. 565 (as "Le Tireur")
Biography
Studied from 1919 to 1923 at the sculpture department of the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Konstanty Laszczka. She made her debut in 1920 with an exhibition at the Cracow Palace of Art. In the following years, she exhibited regularly at the TPSP in Cracow and at Warsaw's "Zachęta". In 1922, she showed her sculpture "Japanese" at an exhibition in Cracow. After graduation, the artist moved to Warsaw, where she had her own studio. She became famous for her sculpture of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski (1926). In 1926-28 the artist went to Paris, where she continued her studies with Emile A. Bourdelle. In addition to portrait sculpture, Niewska was inspired by sports themes (she created statues, cups as prizes in sports competitions) and animalistic themes (a gold medal for her sculpture "Pelican" at the Paris exhibition in 1937).
