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Head of a Girl

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-665/19
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: Head of a Girl
Date of creation: 1890
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions: 21.7 x 17.1 cm (height x width)

Additionally

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

Information about author

Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Author in the original: Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański
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 study of a head of a teenage girl with shoulder-length hair. The head is slightly tilted forward. The gaze of slightly squinted and focused eyes is directed downwards. The lips of the portrayed girl are stiff.

Inscriptions

At the bottom there is an illegible inscription in Polish and the date 1890. On the lower right side of the work there is the author monogram.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery