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Head of a Boy

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-665/40
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: Head of a Boy
Date of creation: 1891
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions: 19.9 x 16.2 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 the teenage boy’s head with slightly messy hair. The head is turned three quarters to the left. The gaze is directed at the viewer. The defining facial features are long, straight eyebrows, wide open large eyes, and stiff lips.

Inscriptions

At the bottom there is an illegible diagonal inscription in Polish. Lower there is a date and an author monogram.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery