Tomasz Kawiak (b. 1943), The perfumer's outfit

Patinated bronze, height 29 cm, signed on the bottom, ed.17/25

In the 90s the artist gained great popularity and recognition, his sculptures began to be exhibited in urban spaces and galleries, both museums and private art collectors began to be interested in them, in total he sold more than 3000 sculptures. One of the sculptures made by Tomasz Kawiak is located in the perfume capital of the world, Grasse, in the very center of the city in front of the Museum of Perfumery. Titled Habit de perfumeur (perfumer's outfit), the sculpture was based on a 17th-century engraving depicting the occupation of the time. It was the beginning of a series of sculptures based on various traces of traditional professions in the artist's oeuvre. Another sculpture of the series, The Grape Picker, stood in the village of Smith Haut Lafitte near Bordeaux, while another is in the garden section of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. Another sculpture by Tomasz Kawiak is located in Mougins in front of the Scene 55 theater, a monumental sculpture 3 meters high, but filled with details, depicting a jeans pocket, with the dictionary definition of emptiness "vide" engraved in the center, and the definition of space "espace" on the other side.