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A VERY BEAUTIFUL SCULPTURE, "HEAD OF ANTONI STONIMSKI," BY A - Lot 149
A VERY BEAUTIFUL SCULPTURE, "HEAD OF ANTONI STONIMSKI," BY August ZAMOYSKI (1893–1970)
A Formist portrait of Antoni Stonimski, in bronze with a golden patina, signed on the base. Artist’s proof with the foundry stamp “Clementi.”
Posthumous edition based on the 1927 diorite version, currently in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw. A 1923 plaster model is also known to have existed, though it is now lost.
Father André Gouzes of Sylvanès Abbey commissioned multiple copies of this work for the Zamoyski Museum in Les Granges.
Enclosed is a copy of a certificate from the Clementi foundry dated March 19, 2021.
Provenance: Private collection
Expert: Mr. Christophe Zagrodzki
Dimensions: approx. 20 x 27 x 13 cm
Good condition
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Bibliography:
Zofia Kossakowska-Szanajca, August Zamoyski, Arkady, Warsaw 1974, no. 58
Reproduced on p. 3233 (stone version)
Zofia Kossakowska-Szanajca, August Zamoyski 1893–1970, MNW, Warsaw 1993, no. 89, ill. p. 55, (original plaster). Exhibition catalog at the National Museum in Warsaw.
Anna Lipa, August Zamoyski. Myslec w Kamieniu. Muzeum Literatury, Warsaw 2019, no. 24, repr. p. 144 (original plaster), p. 232 (stone version)
Maria Sledzianowska, August Zamoyski. Nie tylko z Archwum, Muzeum Literatury, Warsaw 2019, reprinted on p. 423 (original plaster cast)
The sculpture depicts Antoni Slonimski (1895–1976), an eminent author, poet, and journalist known for his absurd sense of humor and as a co-founder of the avant-garde poetry group Skamander.
It is practically the last portrait in the spirit of Formism created by Zamoyski before he moved toward a more classical style.
It is also the most caricatured, which seems to illustrate the sometimes strained relationship between the artist and his subject.
This sculpture is also part of the “double portraits” series, in which Zamoyski approaches the subject in two ways: one realistic, the other featuring a maximal distortion of his model’s face.
The realistic version is known only through archival photographs.
August Zamoyski, a long-forgotten artist who, according to some experts, deserves a place among the greatest of his generation—such as Lipschitz, Zadkine, or Laurens—is returning to the forefront.
The joint initiative undertaken by the Museum of Literature and the National Museum in Warsaw, titled “The Zamoyski Project,” has advanced research on his work.
Furthermore, his presence on the art market has helped raise public awareness of this artist.
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