Wyspiański's works in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw

The collection of works by Wyspiański in the National Museum in Warsaw comprises about one hundred items. Among which: 6 oil paintings, about 50 pastels, about 40 watercolours, drawings, pencil and coloured pencil sketches, three sketchbooks, as well as a set of manuscripts, correspondence and iconographic material. In a separate cabinet within the Gallery of Polish Painting – due to the well known location problems – we are permanently exposing in, only about 20 most outstanding artist’s works made in the technique of pastel (among which Sheaves, Self-portrait against drooping leaves, Materhood, five landscapes from the series View of Kościuszko Mound from a window in the artist's studio). The exhibition will offer the opportunity to show you the items so far unexposed.





Self-portrait in Sapphire Blue, 1894

Pastel, paper, 56,5 x 45 cm
Signed bottom right: Stanisław Wyspiański | 1894 r. Paryż
Purchased 1936, inv. no. 121693




        

Self-portrait, 1902

Pastel, paper, 35 x 45 cm
Signed bottom right: 1902 | S. WYSPIAŃSKI
Purchased 1946, inv. no. 128465




         Materhood, 1902

Pastel, paper, 62 x 46,5 cm
Signed upper right: SW | 1902
Donation of Jakub and Alina Glass 1935, inv. no. 77777




        

Madonna and Child, 1904

Pastel, 199 x 82,5 cm
Purchased 1947, inv. no. 129294




        

"Hermes Leading Ghosts of Heros to the Dephts of Hades", illustration for Homer’s Iliad

Pencil, paper on cardboard, 22,6 x 29 cm [in the light of passe-partout]
Signed bottom left: SWyspiański
Donation of Franciszek and Józefa Krzyształowicz  1932, inv. no. Rys.Pol.3842




        

"Thetis Coming Out From Waves Towards Her Son", illustration for Homer’s Iliad

Coloured pencil, cardboard, 34,6 x 37,6 cm
Signed bottom right with the laced-up monogram in circle
Donation of Franciszek and Józefa Krzyształowicz  1932, inv. no. Rys.Pol.4263 (d. nr 75570)




        

Apollo at the Olymp (Apollo and Melpomene)

Coloured pencil, 23 x 24,5 cm
Signed upper left with the laced-up monogram: SW
Received from the Ministry of Culture and Art 1953, inv. no. Rys.Pol.159219




        

Sheaves, 1898-99

Pastel, 69 x 107 cm
Donation of Franciszek and Józefa Krzyształowicz, 1932, inv. no. 75564




        

View of Kościuszko Mound from a window 

in the artist's studio, 1905

Pastel, 91 x 59,5 cm
Donation of Franciszek Goldberg-Górski, 1968, inv. no. 127600




        

Head of Apollo, 1905

Lithography, paper, 34,9 x 32,5 cm
Signed bottom right with the laced-up monogram: SW | 1904
Purchased from Leopold Wellisz 1964, inv. no. Gr.Pol.21280


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