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Maria Papa Rostkowska Bronze for Harry Jackson

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD
Maria Papa Rostkowska Bronze for Harry Jackson
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6" long, 5 5/8" tall, 2 7/8" wide. Provenance: Harry Andrew Jackson Estate. Maria Papa (1923 - 2008) was active/lived in Poland. Maria Papa is known for Sculpture. Maria Rostkowska had just started her technical drawing and architecture training in Poland when the Second World War broke out. She joined the armed resistance, along with her husband, Ludwik Rostkowski. She escaped deportation, and returned to a devastated Warsaw, there giving birth to her only son. She at last resumed her studies in 1946, entering the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and later travelled to Paris after winning a scholarship. There were she studied drawing and painting, copying works in the Louvre. In 1950 she returned to Poland, and taught painting, first in Gdansk, then in Warsaw. She participated regularly in Polish exhibitions, showing paintings in a social realist style that foregrounded the world of the Polish working class.