1980s Original Polish Theater Poster, Sen Srebrny Salomei (Salomea's Silver Dream)

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Date: 1980s
Size: 37.25 x 26.25 inches
Artist: Marian Nowiński

About the play: Sen srebrny Salomei [Salomea’s Silver Dream] (1843), … Read more Date: 1980s
Size: 37.25 x 26.25 inches
Artist: Marian Nowiński

About the play: Sen srebrny Salomei [Salomea’s Silver Dream] (1843), a play written in Paris by the émigré Polish poet and playwright Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), is considered the first Polish tragi-grotesque, its mixture of clashing styles anticipating twentieth-century avant-garde theatre. Due to its title’s direct reference to Słowacki’s mother Salomea (Bècu), the macabre scenes and visionary climax, the relation to Słowacki’s late mystical oeuvre, and the prescient postcolonial message, it is ranked among the most puzzling dramas of Polish romanticism. While Słowacki considered Sen srebrny one of his best works, not only his contemporaries but also literary critics decades after his death were scandalized by it. (Source: The Literary Encyclopedia)

About the artist: Marian Nowiński was a Polish artist born in 1944 in Brest, Belarus and who died in 2017 at the age of 73. He created many posters for theatres, movies and exhibitions and his work has been offered at auction multiple times.

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