Igor MITORAJ

FACE OVERWHELMED, 1977 Silver-plated metal, wood (pedestal), overall height: 10 cm, sculptures: 6.5 cm

On the back engraved: Bonne Année / 1977 / Bouillet ; stamped: O chess jumper, C CHRITOFLE

Asking price 4400

Estimate 5500 - 6000

Igor MITORAJ

1944 Oederan - 2014 Paris

Studied at an art high school in Bielsko-Biala, then studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, including under Tadeusz Kantor (1967-1968). For the next two years he continued his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In the mid-1970s, he devoted himself to sculpture, creating intimate heads, torsos, etc. in distinctive wraps or bandages. He showed them in his first solo exhibition in 1976 in Paris, which brought him success with the public and art dealers. In his art, he referred to the tradition of antiquity, treating its legacy as relics of a golden age of culture and everlasting patterns.