Wacław SZYMANOWSKI (1859-1930), Juliusz Słowacki

plaster; 39 x 41 x 22 cm;
Signed on back on pedestal: W. Szymanowski;
On the front, on the pedestal, inscription: WISH THAT ONE BIRD WERE MAKED / NOT BY THE MEANING OF A TREATER BUT OF A FIDIASZ! / THAT ALSO ONE BREAST LIKE MEMNON'S BREAST / THAT ALSO ONE! / BENIOWSKI SONG III;
Lit. by H. Kotkowska-Bareja, Waclaw Szymanowski 1859-1930, National Museum in Warsaw, 1981.
The composition was made in 1909 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the bard's birth in several techniques plaster and bronze. The two plaster sculptures, which differ slightly in size, are in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw and the Jagiellonian University Museum in
Jagiellonian University in Cracow. A statue of Juliusz Słowacki, designed by Wacław Szymanowski, is located in a church in Krzemieniec, Volhynia.