Author: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)
Title: Portrait of Kazimierz Burnat (1925)
Technique: pastel, paper pasted on cardboard
Dimensions: 56 x 46 cm
Dimensions with frame: 63 x 51.5 cm
Signed and described l.d.: "Ignacy Witkiewicz | 1925 II NP | Nπ (T.B.)", p.med: "T.B. 29 Nπ [...] 22 27 Cof III"
PROVENANCE:
- Totwen family collection
The work is listed in Irena Jakimowicz's publication Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. Catalog of Paintings, published by the National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 1990, item 564 (p. 88).
Excerpt from Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska's opinion:
"[...] the portrait of Kazimierz Burnat is part of the classics of Witkiewicz's children's portraits, always framed frontally in bust, usually seated behind a table with a platter of fruit in the foreground [...].
Kazimierz Burnat was the son of Wojciech Burnat (1886-1958), a well-known bookbinder from Zakopane, who also framed portraits made by Witkacy."
Witkacy's biography is available on the Krakow Auction House website [SEE].
