(Appropriately, he is also known for his reproduction of a large-scale oil painting by Siemiradzki ... City of Wyspiański programme. The curtain now hangs interchangeably with Siemiradzki’s on the ...

What drew me immediately to this one work was the sky: its eddying blues, a chromatic extension of the stage’s curtain, seemed discordantly sea-like. It remains my favourite part of the painting; ...