Dimensions: Sculpture dimensions: 23 x 24 x 7 cm
Base: 15.5 x 31 x 13.5 cm
Signed and labeled with the artist’s note: “SIKORA STANISŁAW | ‘ŹREBAK’ | BRONZE”
Provenance
Private collection, Poland
Biography
Stanisław Sikora is an artist whose works have been exhibited and awarded numerous times in galleries abroad. Among other honors, the artist won First Prize and the Gold Medal at the international competition in Arezzo in 1965 for a medal depicting Dante Alighieri. He was also awarded the Grand Prix at the International Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture for the Prince Rainer III Grand Prize in Monte Carlo. In 1979, he created Poland’s first medal dedicated to John Paul II. He is also the creator of monuments, including those to the Victims of Mauthausen, the Światowid monument in Copenhagen, and the “Poland” composition in London, as well as statues of Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Nicolaus Copernicus, Frédéric Chopin, and Maria Skłodowska-Curie. He is also the creator of numerous commemorative plaques, three-dimensional forms, sculptures, and medals depicting great Poles. He worked with various materials—in addition to his favorite, wood, he used granite, marble, bronze, ceramics, plaster, and metal.
