Na aukcji i w galerii – o kilku nieznanych realizacjach plastycznych Norwida

Abstrakt

The history of Norwid’s visual works still has numerous secrets, which is not strange considering the fact that the approximate proportion of the number of the surviving works and ones that are lost is 3:2, with the overall number of the works that can be ascribed to the author of Solo a little exceeding two thousand. The awareness of the fact that there may be unknown works whose number cannot be estimated, but there is no doubt that they additionally broaden the area of the terra incognita in the world of Norwid’s pictures, still makes the problem more difficult.

The article presents four unknown up till now visual works by Norwid that appeared on the world market of works of art in recent years. These are: three drawings – A Portrait of a Bearded Man,  A View of an Interior with a Child, a sketch A Man Putting Up Posters and one water color entitled Pythia, that is an extraordinary example of a carefully touched up composition with sensu stricto artistic values. The presentation is accompanied by an attempt to locate the mentioned pictures on the map of Norwid’s visual works.