Record after record falls in Polish art market
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The Polish art market has seen impressive sales records in recent years. In 2021, three records were set on the Polish art market. In October, Magdalena Abakanowicz's "Crowd III" – a work consisting of 50 figures – was sold for PLN 13.2 million. In December, the painting "Two Married Women" by Andrzej Wróblewski was sold for a record PLN 13.44 million at an auction at the DESA Unicum auction house. Just a week later, the price of Wróblewski's work was surpassed at the Polswiss Art auction, where Magdalena Abakanowicz's monumental work "Bambini" was sold. The installation, consisting of 83 figures resembling children's silhouettes, reached a price of PLN 13.6 million and thus became the most expensive work of art in Poland.
The first record of the Polish art market in 2022 was already set in March, when the painting "Portrait of a Lady" by Peter Paul Rubens was sold at the DESA Unicum auction house for PLN 14.4 million. In December, the most expensive work of art sold on the Polish art market became the work "Reality" by Jacek Malczewski. During the auction "Early Art. XIX Century, Modernism, Interwar" at DESA Unicum, the painting was sold for PLN 20.4 million. A few days after the great auction record in Poland, the impressive sum was dropped again. "Portrait of Daughter Helena with Sparrowhawk" by Jan Matejko was sold for PLN 15 million at the Polswiss Art auction house, making the painting the second most expensive work of art ever sold on the Polish art market.
