Bolesław Biegas
Woman in Profile
Estimate £20,000-25,000
Bolesław Biegas was a Polish sculptor, painter and writer. Initially affiliated with the Symbolist movement, Biegas gradually embraced a more modern, geometric style. Having moved to Paris to further his artistic education and career, Biegas drew inspiration from Cubism and Futurism. Spherism, in which figures are composed entirely of circles, became a hallmark of Biegas’ artistic output from the mid 1910s. In 1919, Biegas exhibited forty of these spherical works at the Sociéte d'Art Tanit in the Pavillon de Magny on Avenue Victor Hugo. Woman in Profile is part of this series of spherical portraits. While it closely relates to the contemporary experiments of Kupka, Gleizes and Delaunay, it also has clear parallels with Italian Futurism and foreshadows Abstraction.
