Witold Wojtkiewicz (1879 Warsaw-1909 there), Hamlet, 1906

watercolor, paper, 46 x 30.5 cm in light passe-partout
signed and dated p. d.: Wojtkiewicz 1906

painting reproduced in the catalog of the exhibition "Colors of Identity. Polish Art from the American Collection of Tom Podel", National Museum in Cracow, Cracow 2001

"Wojtkiewicz's only composition referring_x0002_to Shakespeare's work, pre_x0002_representing the tragic and lonely figure of Hamlet, was created in Cracow in 1906 and was exhibited that same year at the Perpetual Exhibition of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts. It was then presented in Paris (1907) at a solo exhibition at Galerie Druet, where it was sold."

Anna Król, Artur Tanikowski
"Colors of Identity. Polish art from the American collection of Tom Podl."

Lit: - "Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Society of the Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow in May 1906," Cracow 1906, p. 15, no. 203 - "Report of the Directorate of the Society of the Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow on its activities for the year 1906," Cracow 1907, p. 23, no. 1001 - "Exposition Witold Wojtkiewicz du 23 Mai au 5 Juin 1907. Galerie E. Druet, 114, Faubourg Sanit-Honore" [exhibition catalog], Paris 1907, p. 5, no. 13 - "Witold Wojtkiewicz 1879-1909. Hangman - exhibition log", vol. II, National Museum in Cracow, Cracow 1989, p. 160, no. 280 - Jerzy Ficowski "In the Orphanage of the World. Rzecz o Witoldzie Wojtkiewiczu", Warsaw 1993, p. 80,236, il. VIII Jerzy Ficowski "Witold Wojtkiewicz", Łowicz 1996, pp. 194, 267, ill. 163