7 Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885 - 1939) Portrait of Nena Stachurska, 1929 pastel/paper, 63 x 47 cm Signed, described and dated at the bottom: '25 ID: 160438 Taxes and fees - In addition to the hammer price, the successful bidder agrees to pay us a buyer's premium on the hammer prices of each lot sold. On all lots we charge 20 % of the hammer price. Provenance Modesta Zwolińska Collection, Zakopane Private Collection, Warsaw Literature Catalogue of the exhibition of paintings of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, County Cultural House, Nowy Targ 1957, item 251 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, SBWA, Zakopane, 1959, item no. 121 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz 1885-1939, catalogue of paintings, ed. Irena Jakamowicz, Anna Żakiewicz, Warsaw, 1990, p. 106, item no. 1090 More information The eyes are beautiful and unconscious, however blue, pupils are very dilated. The nose, as they say now, is a waver. Mouths of poisonous smiled, but relatively well drawn, although in some places, in terms of cutting out á la Van Dyck, exaggerated (of course for today) Hair is impossible to wriggle A moderate oval The increase is mediocre, but not miserable. Yeah, but why talk about it? Witkacy described his most beautiful model, Jadwiga Stachurski, known as Nena, on the Portrait Company Regulamin tab as the only holder of the Permanent Client's ID. Blue-eyed Nena, recorded in just seven years on nearly 70 portraits, arrived in Zakopane in 1913 with her mother and sister. The artist recognized her as an eight-year-old girl, and in the following years their relationship grew closer, especially when Nena worked at Witkacy's brother-in-law's bookstore, becoming his closest companion in Zakopane from the late 20s to the mid-30s. It's the 20th century. Common mountain tours, skiing and drug séances were the background of numerous portraits created in the C-type designed to enhance the physical and mental features of the model. Witkacy also used the rarely used signage s, indicating Nena's presence while working on the portrait. The turbulent relationship ended in 1935 when Nena left for Warsaw, unable to get her life together with another man. The presented portrait was created in the E-type, psychological interpretation according to the artist's intention, and presents the model in a cheerful, almost intimate way: blue-eyed Nena looks softly at the viewer, with karmic lips, and the presence of fruits and yellow flowers intertwined into the fields of a spinning coat gives the composition lightness and dynamics. All elements seem to spin around the central figure, stressing both the beauty of the model and Witkacy's exceptional sensitivity as a portraitist.