Waclaw SZYMANOWSKI (1859-1930) The Wind (Wiatr) [1899] Bronze proof. Signed on the terrace. Height: 47.5 cm Provenance: According to the owner, the work came from the collection of Włodzimierz (Vladimir) Bugiel, dispersed in the early 2000s by his son, Jean Bugiel. Bibliography: KOTKOWSKA-BAREJA Hanna, cat. exp. Wacław Szymanowski, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, 1981, pp. 12 and 56, fig. 9a-9c. The sculpture is based on the subject of an 1895 painting, now lost. We know that there were 4 "Parisian" proofs executed before 1901 - Szymanowski mentions them in a 1901 letter to T. Axentowicz. [sztuka polska, polish art]