SZTUKI PIĘKNE Monthly magazine devoted to architecture, sculpture, painting, graphics and ornamentation. Volume I-X
Krakow - Warsaw 1924-1934.Polish Institute of Fine Arts.Dimension.29x23cm; pp.47, 97-583, 511, 467, 451, 503, 463, 481, 367, 463, 487.Complete in cloth publisher's binding. Published as a monthly, richly illustrated with reproductions in the text and on separate plates.
Woodcuts: volume II contains - Weiss Venus, volume III contains woodcuts Weiss Kopy zboża and Wąsowicz Head of Huculka, volume IV - two woodcuts by Skoczylas (Crucifixion, Madonna), in volume V - T.Cieślewski(Son)Babtysterium in Florence, in volume IX - two woodcuts Warsaw- Puck Woodcuts by T.Cieślewski and Books - Sobowtory.
Next to "Chimera" the most important Polish periodical of the interwar period devoted to Polish artistic life, ancient and contemporary art. Among the authors of articles and dissertations, often monographic in nature, are Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz, Jan St. Bystroń, Marian Morelowski, Józef Mehoffer, Leon Piniński, Antoni Potocki, Jerzy Remer, Paweł Smolik and Mieczysław Treter. Includes studies devoted to such artists as Teodor Axentowicz, Olga Boznańska, Józef Brandt, Xawery Dunikowski, Julian Falat, Wojciech Gerson, Maurycy Gottlieb, Tadeusz Makowski, Stanisław Masłowski, Piotr Michałowski, Józef Pankiewicz, Zbigniew Pronaszko, Henryk Rodakowski, Jan Stanisławski, Zofia Stryjeńska, Stanisław Szukalski, Władysław Ślewiński, Wojciech Weiss, Witold Wojtkiewicz, Leon Wyczółkowski, Stanisław Wyspiański and Eugeniusz Żak.
Rubbing-rubbing of binding, soiling, discoloration of canvas. Sparse foxing- discoloration of paper, a few dings. In vol.1 and vol.2 - one loose board. Overall good condition.