Antoni MADEYSKI, Head of a Girl

Terracotta, length 25 cm, signed Ant. Madeyski Roma 1898.

Sculptor, painter, collector, student of the Cracow SSP, Vienna academy and St. Petersburg academy. In 1898 he settled permanently in Rome, where he was active among the Polish artistic community. He received numerous commissions from Polish families, executed monumental works, and is the author of the Wawel tombstones of Queen Jadwiga and Wladyslaw Warneńczyk, among others, and carried out commissions for monuments epitaphs, medals and coins. His early sculptural works show a strong influence of the new directions, to which their soft modeling, elaborate form and expression, wavy line refer, later works, identified with the influence of antiquity, are characterized by syntheticism and hieratic.