Patinated bronze on marble base, signed and dated "ZW 2004"
Height 29 cm
Zofia Wolska (Zagnańsk near Kielce 1934 - 2016 Warsaw) studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Xawery Dunikowski from 1950 - she was the last student admitted to his studio. Together with Dunikowski, she left the Academy in 1955 and moved to Warsaw to continue studying and working with the professor until his death in 1965. She works in monumental sculpture, outdoor sculpture, as well as intimate sculpture and small sculptural forms. She is the author of monuments in her hometown: Those executed in Kielce (1961), Partisans of the Kielce Land, St. Catherine near Kielce (1962), Stefan Zeromski in Kielce (1964) and many others. She is the author of numerous portraits of historical and contemporary personalities. Her sculptures from the Chopin series, created since 1975, can be found in Zelazowa Wola, Valdemos in Majorca and at Warsaw's Okęcie Airport in Warsaw, among others. She has had many solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions at home and abroad, winning numerous awards. She has traveled extensively for art and study stays, including a US State Department scholarship (1980), a Kosciuszko Foundation scholarship in New York (1981), and a grant from the Senate of the City of Berlin (1982). She was a guest lecturer at the Hochschule der Künste in West Berlin (1980). From 1982 to 1989 she ran the Gallery of Polish Contemporary Art "Ars Polona" in Düsseldorf. In 1995, she created the "Sculpture Author Studio" in her studio in Warsaw's Old Town, where she receives numerous guests from the world of art, culture and politics, and exhibits her sculptures. Since the 1990s, she has continuously worked on behalf of the Chancellery of the President of Poland and the Government. Her works are presented to foreign guests, and have been received by Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, François Mitterrand, Vaclav Havel, King Baudouin I of Belgium, Valdas Adamkus, Queen Silvia of Sweden, Hillary Clinton and Pope John Paul II, among others. Her works can be found in prestigious government buildings and representative public interiors.
