Original ink drawing, by Wladyslaw Daszewski, unsigned, on sheet 16.5 x 11.6 cm. Good condition: minor creases, paper slightly yellowed, verso tape marks from underpainting, spot of white paint in upper left corner. Verso marked in red crayon: PICTURES NO. 35 5a
Illustration for the work "Parszywa owca | Komedia w dwóch odsłonach" by Sergei Mikhalkov, translated by Wlodzimierz Borunski, with [three] illustrations by Wladyslaw Daszewski, which was published in the satirical weekly "Szpilki", no. 35(685), 29.VIII.1954, on pp. 4-5. Here the offered drawing is reproduced in reduction on page 5, at the top (hence the marking 5a - the first drawing on this page)
Wladyslaw Daszewski (1902-1971) - cartoonist, caricaturist, prominent stage designer. He studied at the Warsaw University of Technology (with S. Noakowski) and then at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. As a cartoonist, he cooperated with numerous magazines (before 1939, "Cyrulik Warszawski", "Wiadomości literackie", "Robotnik", after the war, among others, "Szpilki"), as a stage designer he debuted in 1927, cooperated with Warsaw theaters and cabarets, from 1930 he also designed for theaters in Lvov.
In 1934 he became a professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, and continued his teaching work after the war, becoming (in 1964) dean of the newly created Department of Stage Design.
