All examples of nudes and semi-nudes by Boleslaw Cybis that have been found to date have been from the 1920s. Almost all of the photographs below are from auction listings at DESA Unicum in Warsaw, from various sales held in 2020 and afterward. Most of the titles below are descriptions only. Dimensions refer to the [...]
Category: Boleslaw Cybis Paintings & Drawings
Boleslaw Cybis Drawings from the 1940s
Far fewer circa-1940s drawings by Boleslaw Cybis have been found, no doubt because he was busily engaged in settling into his new life in America. Only one item shown below is actually dated as that decade, although several have been attributed (by outside sources) to that timeframe. This pastel-on-paper drawing of a long-haired woman was [...]
Boleslaw Cybis Drawings from the 1930s
Many of the works on paper that were done by Boleslaw Cybis during the 1930s are noticeably different from those he produced in the previous decade. Most of them can be divided into four distinct genres: portraits of Polish people in historical or ethnic costumes; portraits and landscapes during his stay in Libya; landscapes from [...]
Boleslaw Cybis Drawings from the 1920s
This is the first of a series of four Archive posts showing original drawings made by Boleslaw Cybis from the 1920s through the 1940s, sorted by decade. Original paintings appear in their own posts by decade of creation. Cybis’ drawings of nudes appear to date only from the 1920s but in order to keep an [...]
THE CYBIS ARCHIVE 