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Heads of Two Girls

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-665/47
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: Heads of Two Girls
Date of creation: c.1892 (?)
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions: 18.7 x 14 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 heads of two girls. The figure to the viewer’s left is portrayed with short hair that is decorated with a bow. The defining facial features are a wide nose, thick straight eyebrows, and large wide-open eyes. The gaze is directed downwards. The lips are stiff. The face expresses emotions of sadness. The second girl is depicted with flowing shoulders-length hair. The defining facial features are a wide nose and large wide-open eyes. The gaze is directed at the viewer. The lips are stiff.

Inscriptions

In the bottom right corner of the work there is an author monogram.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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