Warsaw. Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz paints a portrait of Bruno Schulz.
During his stay in Warsaw, Schulz renews his acquaintance with Witkacy, who paints his portrait during a New Year’s Eve encounter1. The sketch will be used to illustrate “Wywiad” [Interview] in Tygodnik Ilustrowany (1935, no. 17). Only a photograph has survived.
From the account of Schulz’s friends it is known that there were at least two other portraits painted by Witkacy: one showing Schulz as Harlequin and the other appearing to be “a spinning mass” situated on a “pedestal turning into a corkscrew”2. Both are lost. (ts) (transl. ms)
See also: end of December 1934 – 19 January 1935*, 28 April 1935*.