Portret Mariana Zyndrama Kościałowskiego, polityka, byłego premiera okresu międzywojennego. Obraz dla kolekcjonerów twórczości Witkacego a także zwolenników sanacji piłsudczykowskiej (o ile jeszcze tacy żyją).

Lot 130. Stanislas Ignace WITKIEWICZ Dit Witkacy (1885-1939) Portrait of type B, made under the influence of N II 6m Pastel and charcoal, signed lower left, dated 1928 XII and annotated TB lower middle and N II 6m lower right. 62 x 47 cm. (Tear, small holes in the paper at the bottom). It could very probably be the portrait of Marian Zyndram Koscialkowski (1892-1946), future prime minister of Poland. Provenance: Koscialkowski family (Sale Koscialkowski, Tarbes 25/04/2004). Private collection from Bordeaux. TB in a circle, indicating that this portrait is Type B: “Genre with more character, but without anything caricatural. Work more jolted than in Type A, with traits of character, which does not exclude the “prettiness” in the female portraits. Objective reports of the model ” 250 Zlotys in 1932. N II 6m, corresponding to the mixtures of drugs that the artist took to execute his work. It is in 1928, that he uses for the first time the first time of “Peyote” hallucinogen that he qualified of “metaphysical drug”. Rules of the firm reproduced on page 85 of the book “S. I. Witkiewicz and painting” Grugten 1984 (Will be given to the buyer). “Today he is considered not only the most important personality of the Polish interwar period, but also the first to have shown Polish literature the way to modernity. As such, he is part of a famous trio, including also Bruno Schultz and Witold Gombrowicz” “Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz and European modernism” Anna Fialkiewicz-Saignes, 2006. Estimatie: 12 000 € – 18 000 €. BRISCADIEU BORDEAUX. 02/25/23

Jeszcze jedna fotografia wykonana przez Witkacego; tylko 10% wyceny z Arturem Rubinsteinem: https://polishartcorner.com/2022/11/08/stanislaw-ignacy-witkiewicz-1885-1939-10/.

Lot 118. STANISLAW IGNACY WITKIEWICZ (WITKACY) (1885-1939). La peur du fou (Fear of the fool), gelatin silver print, 11.5 x 8.5cm. Executed in 1931. Provenance: Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Paris. Acquired by the present owner in 1993. Estimate 2,000 – 3,000 euro. Sotheby’s. 11/22/22

Fotografia przedstawiająca Artura Rubinsteina, wykonana przez Witkacego w Zakopanem około 1913 roku. Kolekcjonerów fotografii jest stosunkowo niewielu w porównaniu do kolekcjonerów malarstwa, niemiej jest to spora gratka ze względu na nazwisko fotogtafującego oraz nazwisko pianisty. Poza tym, fotografia ta ma sporą historię wystawienniczą oraz albumową. Nie jest tania.

Lot 38. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy). Artur Rubinstein II, Zakopane, circa 1913. Gelatin silver print. 18 x 13 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.). Proveence: Private Collection, Warsaw; Galerie Berinson, Berlin, 1997. Exhibited: Crossing the Line: Photography Reconsidered, Art Institute of Chicago, 29 January – 4 June 2000, another FOTO: Modernity in Central Europe, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 10 June – 3 September 2007; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 5 October 2007 – 2 January 2008; Milwaukee Art Museum, 2 February – 27 April 2008; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 7 June – 31 August 2008, another. Photography on Display: Modern Treasures, Art Institute of Chicago, 9 May – 13 September 2009, another. Literature: Witkacy – Metaphysical Portraits: Photographs 1910-1939 by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Leipzig: Connewitzer, 1997, p. 67. M. S. Witkovsky et al., Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2007, pl. 3. Estimate £20,000 – 30,000. Phillips. 11/22/22

Moim zdanie, ten pastel Witkacego bezsprzecznie zostane dołączony do najważniejszych tegorocznych znalezisk na rynkach zachodnich. Trudno sobie wyobrazić cenę w Polsce ale to będzie wielokrotność tej niemieckiej. Dlatego, osoba, która widzi tę pracę u siebie na ścianie winna walczyć o nią w Niemczech. Pozostaje do ustalenia nazwisko kobiety przedstawionej na pracy.

Lot 221. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz –Weibliches Portrait, 1938. Pastel chalks on black card 64.7 x 48.6 cm Framed under glass. Signed, dated, and inscribed ‘Ign Witkiewicz 1938 30/III (T. B+d) NP/NTT + herb.’ in white lower left. – In fine condition with fresh colours. Mounted on supporting card. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) was a writer, philosopher and artist blessed with a number of creative talents. In 1924 Witkacy founded the company “S.I. Witkiewicz”, in whose name he accepted portrait commissions in order to support himself financially. As his only employee he personally compiled something like a set of contractual guidelines for his clients, containing 17 paragraphs. These dictated, for example, that clients had no right to have the work destroyed if they were unsatisfied, that they were not allowed to see it before completion, that they were to appear punctually as models and that they were not allowed to express any criticism of the final artistic product. In addition, Witkacy defined seven types of portraits: clients could choose among them and the price was also determined according to them (cf. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Rules of the S.I. Witkiewicz Portrait-Painting Firm, Warschau 1932 [trans. from Polish by Beata Zgodzinska and Beata Brodniewicz], cited in: The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 31 4/2014, pp. 53-58).

The artist often consumed various stimulants or other drugs during the process of creating his work, and he always placed their abbreviations prominently in his pictures, together with his signature, the date and the selected portrait type. The inscription on our intense portrait indicates that Witkacy found himself in a more abstinent phase of his work and that, in the context of this portrait’s production, he did not smoke (“NP”), did not drink alcohol (“NTT”) and did drink tea (“herb.”) (cf. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Narcotics – Nicotine, Alcohol, Cocaine, Peyote, Morphine, Ether + Appendices, Prag 2018, trans. from Polish by Soren Gauger, pp. 9 f.). As a type “B+d”, this work brings out the character of the female model and simultaneously underscores her beauty. Portraits from this category can display caricature-like tendencies, for example, in the slight enlargement of individual passages of the face (cf. op. cit., pp. 54-58).

Witkacy put an end to his life with a decisiveness resembling that of his personal perspective on art. Fleeing from advancing German troops, he died in 1939 from an overdose of sleeping pills. His lover Czeslawa Okninska survived the attempted double suicide. Estimate 20,000 – 30,000 euro. Lempertz. 06/18/21. Sold 90,000 euro (hammer)

Pozostaje dowiedzieć się kim była portretowana. W Polsce obrazy Witkiewicza to już ponad 100,000 złotych. Dlaczego Francuzi nie znają polskich cen? Dlaczego polscy kolekcjonerzy kupują drożej w Polsce zamiast płacić mniej we Francji?

Lot 38. WITKACY (Stanislaw WITKIEWICZ dit) (Varsovie 1885 – 1939 Jeziory Wielkie). Portrait d’une dame, 1931. Pastel sur papier. Signée et datée en haut à gauche, 49 x 38 cm (à vue). Provenance : Collection de T.Szczepanek, Zakopane ; collection privée, Paris. Le tableau porte les symboles qui décrivent le caractère et circonstances de la création spécifiés dans le règlement sa ‘Firme de portraits’. Ainsi il s’agit du ‘Type B’ (dans l’échelle de A à E) qui indique le dégrée de la déformation du modèle, tandis que le symbole ‘NP’ indique que l’artiste n’a pas fumé pendant la séance. Estimate 6,000 – 8,000 euro. Oger – Blanchet. 05/18/21. Sold 19,500 euro

Przerażenie wariata. Inna odbitka tej fotografii była sprzedana w grudniu 2012 roku w Sotheby’s za $10,000.

Lot 14. STANISŁAW IGNACY WITKIEWICZ 1885 – 1939. LA PEUR DU FOU, 1931, silver print, annotated ‘296 D’ by unknown hand on verso, 4 ½ x 3 ¼ in.; 11.6 x 8.3 cm. Estimate 8,000 – 12,000 euro. Sotheby’s. 11/08/19

Lot 275. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Polish, 1885-1939)
Portrait of Ada Propper
signed, dated and inscribed ‘Witkacy 1929 III N? 9m + Cof’ (lower center); additionally inscribed ‘T.E.’ (lower left)
pastel on paper laid down on board
24 ¼ x 19 in. (61.6 x 48.3 cm.)

Estimate $10,000-15,000. Chritsies. 06/13-14/17

Lot 277. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Polish, 1885-1939)
Portrait of Ada Propper
signed, dated and inscribed ‘Ignacy Witkiewicz/ 1926 X. XI.’ (lower left); inscribed ‘1P + NP 1, 2 F’(lower left)
pastel on paper laid down on board
23 ½ x 19 in. (59.7 x 48.3 cm.)

Estimate $12,000-18,000

Lot 278. Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Polish, 1885-1939)
Portrait of Janina Propper
signed and dated ‘Ignacy Witkiewicz 1925’ (lower right); inscribed ‘T.A.’ (lower right); additionally inscribed ‘3P, NP 1 (NP 2 + P) P’ (lower left)
pastel on paper laid down on board
22 ½ x 19 in. (57.2 x 48.3 cm.)

Estimate $10,000-15,000

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Lot 0141. STANISLAW IGNACY WITKIEWICZ (POLAND 1885-1939), PASTEL ON PAPER LAID ON ARTIST BOARD, UNTITLED PORTRAIT, SIGNED, 1933 (WITH NOTATIONS). SIGHT 22 1/2 X 16 1/2″; FRAMED AND GLAZED-27 X 20″

Estimate: $1,200 – $1,600. 10/02/16. William J. Jennack