BOLESLAS BIEGAS (1877-1954) (BOLESLAW BIEGALSKI,... Lot 2

BOLESLAS BIEGAS (1877-1954) (BOLESLAW BIEGALSKI, KNOWN AS) Baron Henryk Trutschel (1844-1928) protector and patron of the artist, the model designed in [1902], our proof made before 1906, unique piece, presented at the Galerie des Artistes Modernes, Paris, 1908 Sculpted portrait; hollow back. Proof in bronze with shaded brown patina. Signed and located B. BIEGAS - Paris towards the base on the right-hand side. Height: 46.5 cm Provenance : American collection. Important : A notice of inclusion in the catalog raisonné of the Biegas Committee with the support of the Polish Historical and Literary Society (SHLP), signed by Mr. Xavier Deryng and Mrs. Anna Czarnocka, will be given to the purchaser. Exhibitions : - Bolesław Biegas - City Museum, Kiev, 1905. The plaster cast of our work presented at this event. - Bolesław Biegas - Galerie des Artistes Modernes, Paris, 1908. Our work presented at this event and bearing catalog no. 47. Bibliography: - Boleslas Biegas; sculpteur et peintre - Album, éditions Louis Theuveny, 1906. The plaster cast of our work is reproduced on page 27. - Xavier Deryng - Bolesław Biegas - Catalogue of the exhibition held from May 31 to August 30, 1992 at the Trianon de Bagatelle, Boulogne-Billancourt. Éditions de la Société Historique et Littéraire Polonaise (SHLP), Paris, 1992. Boleslas Biegas, Henry and Jadwiga Trutschel and the studio plaster of our work featured in a period photograph reproduced on page 16; another early photograph of the studio plaster of our work next to the artist (Kiev exhibition, 1905) reproduced on page 249. Our work in a period photograph, with the artist leaning on the sellette receiving it, reproduced on page 226.