STRYJEŃSKA ZOFIA POLISH DANCES COMPLETE PORTFOLIO AUTOGRAPHED BY THE ARTIST

STRYJEŃSKA ZOFIA POLSKIE DANCES autographed by the artist - DEDICATION

Portfolio created on the basis of Zofia Stryjeńska's works painted in Zakopane in 1927.

List of plates:

1. title page, 2. highlander, 3. krakowiak 4. kolomyjka 5. kujawiak 6. mazur 7. oberek 8. polka 9. polonaise 10. zbójnicki 11. Żydowski

Booklet binding original portfolio = Original publisher's binding. Text in English.

Minor scuffs and paper cracks at the joints of the folder flaps. Condition of the folder very good. Condition of boards perfect.

Zofia Stryjeńska (b. 1891 Krakow - 1976 Geneva) - "One of the most outstanding Polish artists of the 1st half of the 20th century. She was the wife of the architect and sculptor Karol Stryjeński. In 1909, she began her studies at Maria Niedzielska's painting school for women. In 1911, disguised as a boy, as Tadeusz Grzymała, she began studying painting in Munich (at that time women were not admitted to the academy there). After a year, recognized by her colleagues, she left Munich and returned to Cracow. In 1918 she joined the Cracow Workshops as a toy designer and author of graphic tees. From 1921 to 1927 she lived in Zakopane, where her husband worked as director of the Wood Industry School. After their divorce in 1927, she moved to Warsaw. In 1938 she received several commissions from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including a kilim for Emperor Hirohito of Japan. She took part in decorating the interiors of Polish passenger ships: "Batory" and "Piłsudski". She also made frescoes in the Technical and Industrial Museum in Cracow (1917), polychromy of the rooms in the Senator's Tower on Wawel Hill (1917) and interior decorations of the Fukier Winery in Warsaw. As a member of the Association of Polish Artists Rhythm (since 1922), she participated in the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925, decorating the main hall of the Polish pavilion designed by J. Czajkowski with six panneaux depicting the Ceremonial Year in Poland. Individual presentations of Stryjeńska's work were held at Warsaw's Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts (1919, 1926), Paris' Galerie Crillon (1921), London's New Art Salon (1927), Lviv's Museum of Art Industry (1932) and Warsaw's Institute of Art Propaganda (1935), among others. Abroad, the artist exhibited her works at the Venice Biennale (1920, 1930, 1932) and at exhibitions organized in 1927-39 by the Society for the Propagation of Polish Art Among Foreigners. In 1929 she received a grand gold medal for book illustrations at the General National Exhibition in Poznań, and in 1932 she won a gold medal at the 18th Venice Biennale.