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Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1934
adults
arts and entertainment
body
hair
head / face
individuals: male
man
moustache
musician
named individuals
nationality
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan
people
Polish
politician, prime minister
portraits
public service
society
work and occupations
<p>This work depicts Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), a Polish pianist who was renowned for his dazzling technique and luxuriant head of hair. In 1918 he became Prime Minister of Poland. The bust was completed in two hours while Paderewski played the piano in Gilbert’s studio. The plaster was not cast into bronze until 1934, suggesting that Gilbert considered it unfinished. However, it has a sense of freedom not found in other contemporary portraits by Gilbert.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2010</em></p>
sculpture bronze
1 January 2001
1 August 2009 – 28 February 2027
2027-02-28
2009-08-01
Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK)
http://www.vam.ac.uk
2001-01-01
Long loan to V&A
Loan-out
3 May 2004 – 30 August 2004
2004-08-30
3 May 2004
2004-05-03
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2004-05-03
Turbine Hall (heads)
Collection based display
14 March 2009 – 21 June 2009
2009-06-21
14 March 2009 – 21 June 2009
2009-06-21
2009-03-14
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-03-14
Poland and Britain around 1900
Exhibition
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
object: 600 × 319 × 193 mm, 30.8 kg
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1934
<p>This work depicts Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), a Polish pianist who was renowned for his dazzling technique and luxuriant head of hair. In 1918 he became Prime Minister of Poland. The bust was completed in two hours while Paderewski played the piano in Gilbert’s studio. The plaster was not cast into bronze until 1934, suggesting that Gilbert considered it unfinished. However, it has a sense of freedom not found in other contemporary portraits by Gilbert. 
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2010-02-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>N04755</b> IGNACY JAN PADEREWSKI <i>c.</i> 1900 (?)
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Alfred Gilbert’ at back on base of neck.
<br/>Bronze, 23 3/4×11 1/2×10 1/2 (60×29×26·5), including bronze base, 6 (15).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1934.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1934 (1595), as ‘Paderewski - Musician, Patriot, Statesman’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> McAllister, 1929, p.165; Bury, 1952, pp.55, 87, 88.</p>
<p>Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941), Polish pianist and patriot, became first Prime Minister of Poland in 1918 and died in New York.</p>
<p>According to McAllister Gilbert used to listen to Paderewski perform at the house of Alma-Tadema. The exact date is not known but the bust was probably made before Gilbert's retirement to Bruges in 1906. A gilded <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/plaster-of-paris" title="Glossary definition for 'Plaster of Paris'"><span>plaster</span></a> model for <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gilbert-ignacy-jan-paderewski-n04755" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04755</span></a> is in the Manchester City Art Gallery and is reproduced by Cox (1936, pl.3), who states that another <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/metal" title="Glossary definition for 'Metal'"><span>bronze</span></a> belonged to Lady Lewis (repr. McAllister, 1929, pl.38).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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adults arts and entertainment body hair head / face individuals: male man moustache musician named individuals nationality Paderewski, Ignacy Jan people Polish politician, prime minister portraits public service society work and occupations