Size: 23.5 x 17 cm (clear passe-partout)
Signed on woodblock l.d.: 'CHROSTOWSKI'
The print comes from the book "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" published in 1940. The edition is from the 37-volume bibliophilic series "The comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare", distributed by Limited Editions Club. Compiled by Herbert Farjeon. 1950 pieces were published.
Literature
Maria Grońska, Graphics in a book, portfolio and album, Wroclaw 1994, p. 216, item 145.
Agata Pietrzak, Stanisław Ostoja-Chrostowski, Warsaw 2007, item 649, p. 78.
Stanisław Woźnicki, Chrostowski's woodcuts of Shakespeare, Arkady, no. 4, 1939, pp. 172-175
Biography
Graphic artist, professor and rector of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He began studying painting in Moscow (1923-29) and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. After the death of Władysław Skoczylas, he took over the chair of the Department of Artistic Graphics in 1937. He practiced exclusively woodcut. One of the most outstanding wood engravers of the interwar period. Professor and rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His works are characterized by refined texture and composition, idyllic mood, tendency to stylization. In total, he made about 400 compositions.
