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Maria Papa - Rostkowska

1923–2008 Sculptor, painter, designer, creator of sculptures in urban spaces. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in War- saw (1955). Lecturer at the PWSSP in Sopot and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She lived and worked in Paris from 1957 onwards. In 1966, she founded her studio in Pietrasanta, near the Carrara quarries in Italy. Since 1959, she has been involved in sculpture, mainly creating in marble. Awarded the Virtuti Militari Medal. Winner of the William and Noma Copley Foundation Award (1966).

Works in collections i.a.:
The Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Xawery Dunikowski Sculpture Museum in Warsaw, Królikarnia, Palace of the President of the Republic of Poland in Warsaw, Palais Bourbon in Paris, the seat of the French National Assembly, Polish Library in Paris, University of Milan (Archive della Parola, dell'Immagine e della Communicazione Editoriale).

Selected exhibitions: Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris (1963); Biennale Internationale de Sculpture, Carrara (1967); Galerie Moni Calatchi, Paris (1972); Couvent Saint Augustin, Loano, Italy (1984); Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw (1991); Spazio Tadini, Milan (2009); Xawery Dunikowski Sculpture Museum in Warsaw, Królikarnia (2014); Polish Library in Paris (2015); Museo di Arte Contamporanea Cascina Rioma, Milan (2017); The Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (2023).

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gilded bronze, granite pedestal  | h. 39 cm

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