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Witkacy was also fabulous in portraiture. He opened a kind
of regulated artistic firm that fixed the process and the cost of a
portrait, and that catered to Cracow’s intelligentsia. Among his
subjects were the famous actress Irena Solska and the famous
ethnographer Bronislaw Malinowski, with whom he traveled
to the Far East. When creating his eminently strange portraits—
caricatures, in fact—he often was doped with narcotics or
alcohol.
Furthermore, Witkacy also wrote unconventional novels
that contain drastic erotic scenes and political associations: fear
of the advance of Communism and of the “yellow danger” of
Bronislaw Malinowski, painted by Stanislaw Witkiewicz.
of regulated artistic firm that fixed the process and the cost of a
portrait, and that catered to Cracow’s intelligentsia. Among his
subjects were the famous actress Irena Solska and the famous
ethnographer Bronislaw Malinowski, with whom he traveled
to the Far East. When creating his eminently strange portraits—
caricatures, in fact—he often was doped with narcotics or
alcohol.
Furthermore, Witkacy also wrote unconventional novels
that contain drastic erotic scenes and political associations: fear
of the advance of Communism and of the “yellow danger” of
Bronislaw Malinowski, painted by Stanislaw Witkiewicz.