ARTHUR and Wanda. The love story of Arthur Grottger and Wanda Monné. 1928

ARTHUR and Wanda. The love story of Arthur Grottger and Wanda Monné. Letters, diaries illustrated with numerous, mostly unknown works of the artist. Submitted for publication by Maryla Wolska and Michal Pawlikowski. Vol. 1-2. Medyka-Lwow 1928. Nakł. "Bibliot. Medyka." 8, p. [4], 484, plate 6; [4], 367, [1], plate 5. Original cloth cover, decorated. Library of Medicine, opus 4.
Maliszewski 3590. Covers rubbed and a bit dusty, scuffing of signboards on spines, internally very good condition. The story of a violent, romantic and unfulfilled love between an outstanding painter and a young girl who came from an old French-German family that had been Polishized for two generations in Lviv. Grottger met Wanda Monné when she was 16 years old. He was 13 years older than her. He had only two years of life ahead of him. The lovers' poignant letters and diaries, as well as unknown, unique documents in the family's possession, document their fate in detail and shed much light on Grottger's work. The Medyka Library was a private publishing house founded in 1925 in Medyka by two families, the Pawlikowski and Wolski families, who were friends and distinguished for Polish culture. Between 1925 and 1939, 15 titles, known here as "opuses," were published.