Dimensions: 38 x 25 cm (sheet)
Within the illustrations, notes and printer's sketches. On the reverse, notes regarding the illustrations in the book and publisher's stamp.
Gentle fold of the upper right corner of the page. Gentle soiling throughout the card surface.
Illustration reproduced, among others, in Jan Brzechwa "Behold the Fairy Tale", published by Czytelnik, Issue I, Warsaw 1974.
Provenance
purchase at the Gallery of Graphics and Posters, 2002
private collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
Jan Marcin Szancer, 100th anniversary of his birth, Gallery of Graphics and Posters, Warsaw 2002.
Biography
Painter, graphic artist, draughtsman, illustrator, theatrical, film and television stage designer, actor, columnist, satirist, educator, professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, artistic director of the State Publishing Institute, first artistic director of Polish Television, co-creator of weekly magazines for children: "Przygoda" and "Świerszczyk", expert in theater, music, literature. Excellent illustrator of children's books. Friend and collaborator of Jan Brzechwa, whose books were full of Szancer's painterly imagination. He illustrated more than 240 books, including Tuwim, Krasicki, Mickiewicz, Fredro, Prussia, Sienkiewicz, Andersen, Collodi, Hoffman.
