Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902), Parnas (Project for the Curtain of the Municipal Theater in Lviv), 1900

Provenance
Poland, private collection London, Sotheby's, auction 01.12.2020, item 14 Innsbruck, collection of the heirs of the Herbst family (1939-2020) Sopot, collection of Matylda Zofia Herbst (1929-1939) Lower Silesia, collection of Edward Walter Herbst (1921-1929) Lodz, collection of Edward August Maurycy Herbst (1900-1921) owned by the artist

Exhibited
Lodz, Heinzl Palace, Great National Appeal under the slogan "Save the Children". Catalog of an exhibition of paintings, sculptures and engravings, June 11-July 3, 1916 (under the erroneous title "Krakow Curtain"). Warsaw, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, 1903.

Reproduced
Malinowski J. [ed.], Corpus of paintings by Henryk Siemiradzki, vol. 2A: Works on secular subjects, Polish Institute of World Art Studies & Tako Publishing House, Warsaw - Torun 2021, p. 599. Kacprzak D., The Promised Land Collection. Artistic collections of the Łódź bourgeoisie of large industry in the years 1880-1939, National Institute of Museums and Collections Protection, Warsaw 2015, p. 90 (photograph from an exhibition at the Heinzl Palace in Łódź in 1916). Exhibition of Fine Arts for the Proceeds of the Great National Appeal "Save the Children" [photo album], Central Textile Museum, Lodz 1916. Postcard entitled. "H. Siemiradzki's Curtain in Lviv's New Theater", Land in Pictures Publishing House, Lviv, Cracow, after 1900.

Literature
Malinowski J. [ed.], Korpus dzieł malarskich Henryka Siemiradzkiego, vol. 2A: Dzieła o tematce świeckiej, Polski Instytut Studiów nad Sztuką Świata & Wyd. Tako, Warsaw - Toruń 2021, pp. 586-609. Kuczyńska A., Malowane kurtyny teatralne Henryka Siemiradzkiego, Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II (Scientific Society of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin), Lublin 2010, pp. 50-60. Lewandowski S., Henryk Siemiradzki, ed. and owned by Gebethner & Wolff, Warsaw, Krakow 1904, pp. 116-119.