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The Asymmetrical Lady / Die Asymmetrische Dame / Asymetryczna Dama

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

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The collection of portraits of "The Asymmetrical Lady" was created by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz between 1931 and 1939, spontaneously and free of charge, and was the result of his strange fascination with the beauty of a young woman, Eugenia Wyszomirska-Kuznicka. He called her "The Asymmetrical Lady" because of her irregular facial features. Among the series of portraits of the women Witkacy was interested in the collection "The Asymmetrical Lady" is the most intriguing because of its multiple meanings, accumulated legend, and a kind of double asymmetry: the primary asymmetry of the sitter, which was the artist's inspiration, and the new one created by time and the sitter herself. The private collection of Mrs Wyszomirska, consisting of twenty nine portraits, formed an unusual gallery in her Katowice flat, the gallery in which the artist's work and his model lived together in strange symbiosis. With the passage of time, this co-existence of 'the past' and 'the present' assumed an eerie character. The gallery of one model became a 'double portrait' of sorts, in which the figure of an old, ailing and lonely woman living among her reflections in pictures entered into a strange interaction with those pictures on the walls, the images of eternal enchanting youth.

Pages: 82

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1991

The Asymmetrical Lady / Die Asymmetrische Dame / Asymetryczna Dama

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

0/5 ( ratings)

The collection of portraits of "The Asymmetrical Lady" was created by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz between 1931 and 1939, spontaneously and free of charge, and was the result of his strange fascination with the beauty of a young woman, Eugenia Wyszomirska-Kuznicka. He called her "The Asymmetrical Lady" because of her irregular facial features. Among the series of portraits of the women Witkacy was interested in the collection "The Asymmetrical Lady" is the most intriguing because of its multiple meanings, accumulated legend, and a kind of double asymmetry: the primary asymmetry of the sitter, which was the artist's inspiration, and the new one created by time and the sitter herself. The private collection of Mrs Wyszomirska, consisting of twenty nine portraits, formed an unusual gallery in her Katowice flat, the gallery in which the artist's work and his model lived together in strange symbiosis. With the passage of time, this co-existence of 'the past' and 'the present' assumed an eerie character. The gallery of one model became a 'double portrait' of sorts, in which the figure of an old, ailing and lonely woman living among her reflections in pictures entered into a strange interaction with those pictures on the walls, the images of eternal enchanting youth.

Pages: 82

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1991

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