Originally shown in 1930s Drawings, additional material has come to light that absolutely warrants giving this unusual work an Archive post of its own. This was one of the final two commissions that Boleslaw Cybis received and completed before leaving Poland for – of course, unknown to him at that time – his permanent residence [...]
This second part of the chronological retrospective of Boleslaw Cybis’ art focuses on his paintings from the 1930s. I recently discovered that the timeline presented in the early-1970s Cybis in Retrospect exhibit catalog is at sometimes at odds with dates on the paintings themselves. For example, it claims that Cybis was in Italy during 1928 [...]
Because so many original paintings have come to light via auctions during the past two years, I have decided to revamp my original two ‘Cybis paintings’ posts into three new retrospectives according to when they were created: 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Drawings and sketches by Boleslaw Cybis are already chronicled according to decade, and so [...]
If you perused the photos in my ‘life at the Cybis studio’ post, you might perhaps have noticed what the various artists and artisans were wearing – at least, in the photos taken at the Norman Avenue studio. They are dressed in normal, everyday street clothes (shirts, blouses, sweaters, even a jacket or two) which [...]
In my December 2023 post, The Art of Making Art Porcelain, I described the ‘finishing and mounting’ process as Step #7. Depending on how many individual molds made up each component of a particular design, this could be quite a complicated process. Not only did each element need to be assembled (‘mounted’) but then that [...]
THE CYBIS ARCHIVE 