ZAMOYSKI

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ZAMOYSKI
VERY NICE SCULPTURE "HEAD OF ANTONI STONIMSKI" by August ZAMOYSKI (1893-1970) Head in bronze with lost wax and golden patina signed on the base. Artist's proof with founder's stamp "Clementi". It rests on a rectangular wooden base. This work was ordered in several copies by the father André Gouzes of the Sylvanès abbey for the Zamoyski museum in Granges. Dim : 20 x 13 x 27 cm Attestation of Mr Gilbert Clementi, master craftsman foundry of art in the homonymous foundry. Auguste Zamoyski, born on June 28, 1893 in Jabłoń, Poland, and died on May 19, 1970 in Saint-Clar-de-Rivière, was a Polish sculptor who participated in the Formist movement. Born into a large Polish noble family Zamoyski studied law, economics and agronomy in Freiburg and then philosophy in Heidelberg. His interest in aesthetic theory never waned, as evidenced by his 1954 lecture on Art and Substance at the International Congress of Philosophy in Sao Paulo. Back in Poland, he settled in Zakopane, "the Chamonix of Poland", a meeting place for Polish artists and intellectuals of the time. He took part in the creation of an expressionist artistic movement which, in 1919, took the name of Formism, "the most important aesthetic movement in independent Poland". The essential characteristic of the movement, according to Leon Chwistek, who is often considered, along with Witkiewicz, as the main theoretician of Formism, is "the attempt to create a new style, based on the concepts of realism and beauty, which developed from the experience of the Cubists, Futurists and Expressionists. Three periods are generally distinguished in the development of Zamoyski's work: - The Formist period (1917 - 1925), in Zakopane (Poland) - A realistic period (1925 - 1950) (France, Brazil) - a period of spiritual expressionism (from 1950); last years in Brazil, France, Poland In 2002, Hélène Zamoyska donated an important part of Auguste Zamoyski's work to the Abbey of Sylvanès, and the Zamoyski Museum opened its doors in 2009. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the sculptor's death (2020), an exhibition entitled Auguste Zamoyski. Thinking in Stone, as well as an edition of the sculptor's archives are organized in Poland (2017 - 2020) by the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw in collaboration with the Auguste Zamoyski Museum in Sylvanès. On 15 January 2019, the collection of Zamoyski's works held in Sylvanes since 2009 was acquired by the National Museum in Warsaw. It includes ninety-three pieces which are exhibited in this museum since May 17, 2019.
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