Author: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy)
Title: Portrait of Aleksandra Ustupska (1926)
Technique: pastel, paper
Dimensions in light of passe-partout: 64.3 x 47.7 cm
Dimensions with frame: 92 x 75 cm
Signed p.d.: "Ign Witkiewicz"
Dated p.d.: "1926" [dating faintly visible].
Inscribed l.d.: "T.B + E"; "NP1, 2, 3 + 3P"
TIZIAN filigree paper (l.d.).
Traces of paper mounting in corners. In the lower left part of the picture (near the hair of the portrait) a crack in the ground.
On the back of the binding a tag from the exhibition "Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - Faces" exhibited in 1985 in the Tatra Museum in Zakopane.
The painting is mentioned in the catalog of the exhibition Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - faces (Tatra Museum, Zakopane 1985) on position no. 45 as "Portrait of a girl" and in the publication Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939) Katalog dzieł malarskich, ed. I. Jakimowicz, A, Żakiewicz, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 190, item 667, p. 92.
An extensive description of the painting can be read on the website of Krakow Auction House [SEE].
