Objects

An unused – probably due to the need for corrections – illustration for Władysław Broniewski's poem "Ciała" (Bodies) (as published in the book "Ręka umarłej" (Hand of a Deceased)). The final version of the drawing (also in the collection, MPOLIN-M1618), in which the street is much more covered with rubble and there are more bodies lying on it, is printed at the bottom of page 56, where the poem ends. Among the many "bodies of the dead" that the lyrical subject enumerates, there are also "bodies from the camps, | and of the cities shot”; inspiration for the illustrative representation can be found in the verse about cities.

The corrections, already applied to the composition itself, are visible mainly in the leftmost column (small deletions of the vertical line adjacent to the column closing the composition on the left, lines-deletions of the staircase element and the rubble under the stairs); minor corrections are also visible in other places of the composition (on the right, also close to the centre of the composition on the right).

Przemysław Kaniecki