id: 114951 accession number: 1935.125 share license status: Other url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1935.125 updated: 2020-11-04 19:50:29.347000 Pietà, 1929. Wiktorya J. Gorynska (Polish, 1902-1945). Wood engraving; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride 1935.125 title: Pietà title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1929 creation date earliest: 1929 creation date latest: 1929 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride copyright: --- culture: Poland, 20th century technique: wood engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Wood engraving type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Wiktorya J. Gorynska (Polish, 1902-1945) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Prints Accessioned in 1935 opening date: 1936-10-14T05:00:00 Prints Accessioned in 1935. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 14-November 8, 1936). title: Contemporary European Prints from the Museum Collection opening date: 1939-07-17T04:00:00 Contemporary European Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 17-September 6, 1939). title: Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance opening date: 2019-10-13T04:00:00 Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: Twentieth-century artists, particularly those seeking to express religious feeling, often turned to Renaissance works of art as models. Although in reverse, the composition of this 20th-century pietà bears strong resemblance to Michelangelo’s 1498 sculpture. Both compositions are deeply mournful, capturing the sorrow of the mother's loss of her child, even while Wiktorya Gorynska’s print displays aspects of modern art such as flattened space and simplified, abstract forms. Gorynska added unique elements, such as the striped shroud and the kneeling figure of Saint John the Evangelist at left. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES