In 1935, Boleslaw Cybis and Jan Zamoyski were tasked with creating a fresco painting for the interior of the Military Institute of Geography in Warsaw. The Military Institute is an amalgam of different museums and study locations; for example, there is the Military Institute of Medicine, the Military Institute of Armament Technology, and so on. [...]
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 [...]
Most Cybis collectors are familiar with the piece colloquially known as The Polish Bride, which was based on a 1929/1930 oil painting by Boleslaw Cybis, but until recently I was unaware that the studio produced a second sculpture based on a different, but strikingly similar, painting. The circumstances surrounding the second sculpture were a little [...]
THE CYBIS ARCHIVE 