Opracowanie INTERPOL Najbardziej poszukiwane dzieła sztuki BARBARA KALETA 3 4 1 2 5 1. BRANCUSI CONSTANTIN 4. DALI SALVADOR 1. BRANCUSI CONSTANTIN 4. DALI SALVADOR KSIĘŻNICZKA X KOBIETA Z SZUFLADAMI PRINCESS X LA FEMME AUX TIROIRS Materiał: miedź Materiał: brąz Material: copper Material: bronze Wysokość: 19 cm Wysokość: 18 cm Height: 19 cm Height: 18 cm Szerokość: 8,50 cm Szerokość: 42 cm Width: 8,50 cm Width: 42 cm Kraj kradzieży: Francja Oznaczenia: I/VIII Country of theft: France Markings: I/VIII NUMer reF. InterPolu: Kraj kradzieży: Belgia InterPol reFerence: Country of theft: Belgium 2010/50904-1.2 NUMer reF. InterPolu: 2010/50904-1.2 InterPol reFerence: 2010/39021-1.1 2010/39021-1.1 2. DOROPOULOS VASSILIS 2. DOROPOULOS VASSILIS OCZEKIWANIE 5. MOORE HENRY WAIT 5. MOORE HENRY Materiał: brąz POZYCJA LEŻĄCA Material: bronze RECLINING FIGURE Wysokość: 14 cm Materiał: brąz Height: 14 cm Material: bronze Szerokość: 5 cm Wysokość: 255 cm Width: 5 cm Height: 255 cm Kraj kradzieży: Grecja Szerokość: 350 cm Country of theft: Greece Width: 350 cm NUMer reF. InterPolu: Kraj kradzieży: Wielka Brytania InterPol reFerence: Country of theft: United Kingdom 2009/30279-1.2 NUMer reF. InterPolu: 2009/30279-1.2 InterPol reFerence: 2005/57069-1.1 2005/57069-1.1 3. PICASSO 3. PICASSO BIUST KOBIETY BUST OF WOMEN Materiał: stiuk, gips Material: stucco, plaster Wysokość: 37 cm Height: 37 cm Kraj kradzieży: Francja Country of theft: France NUMer reF. InterPolu: InterPol reFerence: 2010/50904-1.1 2010/50904-1.1 46 INTERPOL The Most Wanted Works of Art 6 7 8 9 6. DALI SALVADOR 8. GONZALES 6. DALI SALVADOR 8. GONZALES KOBIETA Z TWARZĄ RÓŻY DEMI MASQUE AUX DENTS LA FEMME A LA TETE DE ROSE DEMI MASQUE AUX DENTS Materiał: brąz, złoto Materiał: brąz, drewno Material: bronze, gold Material: bronze, wood Oznaczenia: 314/350 Wysokość: 20 cm bez drewnianej Markings: 314/350 Height: 20 cm not including Kraj kradzieży: Niemcy podstawy Country of theft: Germany wooding base NUMer reF. InterPolu: Oznaczenie: 8 InterPol reFerence: markings: 8 2010/50871-1.1 NUMer reF. InterPolu: 2010/50871-1.1 InterPol nuMber: 2010/57017-1.33 2010/57017-1.33 7. DALI SALVADOR 7. DALI SALVADOR ALICJA W KRAINIE CZARÓW 9. LAGRANGE ALICE IN WONDERLAND 9. LAGRANGE Materiał: brąz STOJĄCA NAGA KOBIETA Material: bronze STANDING NUDE FEMALE Wysokość: 88.9 cm Kraj kradzieży: Francja Height: 88.9 cm Country of theft: France Szerokość: 44.45 cm Material: szylkret Width: 44.45 cm Material: tortoiseshell Oznaczenie: 53/350 Wysokość: 9 cm Markings: 53/350 Height: 9 cm Kraj kradzieży: USA NUMer reF. InterPolu: Country of teft: United States InterPol nuMber: NR reF. InterPolu: 2011/11062-1.3 InterPol nuMber: 2011/11062-1.3 2007/28176-1.4 2007/28176-1.4 47 SUMMARY ries. The author discusses various hypotheses Usually it has been assumed there are about page ElżbiEta Rogowska referring to these objects, which are more pro- 1200 – 1300 museums in Poland. Since 1 July 3 perly called ARCADIAN sculptures. He quotes 2011 the National Institute of Museology and JEWISH WOMAN WITH ORANGES all the data on these sculptures, which have not Protecting Collections has published a list of 41 RECOVERED been renovated for a long time. museums. The above painting by Aleksander Gierymski was found in November 2010. After seven months, it returned to the National Museum in page 31 PiotR ogRodzki Warsaw. The painting was stolen during World page 19 andRzEJ zugaJ VANDALS IN MUSEUMS War II and taken to Germany. Since 1948 it was AN AMBIGUOUS ARTIST AND HIS Vandalising historic objects and cultural proper- owned by a private individual and then became MONUMENTS ty is far from being a new phenomenon. The au- part of the family’s inheritance. Thanks to "The Iron Organ" by Władysław Hasior, the thor gives some examples of acts of vandalising the activity of Polish authorities, the painting, monument placed at Snozka, the pass between works of art. He speaks about the perpetrators which is one of the most valuable canvases by A. the Gorce and the Pieniny near Czorsztyn, is and the losses suffered by culture, not only in Gierymski, returned to Poland. the third finest work in the artist’s legacy. This Poland, and recommends some measures to unusual monument hides pipes, gongs and bells counter this scourge. Hanna ŁaskaRzEwska in its cogged iron structure. It was to be the first page 6 monument producing musical sound. It was FROM LYON TO CRACOW unveiled in 1966. Its renovation was finished page 34 The article recalls the fate of the famous collec- towards the end of 2010. There is an ongoing agniEszka cHaMERa – nowak tion of memorabilia and documents connected political dispute as to who it commemorates. BAWOROVIANUM with Frederick Chopin, which had for over 30 One of the most important foundation libraries years been amassed by the French musicologist, is the Lviv library of Wiktor count Baworow- Edouard Ganche. In the 1930s the owner want- page 24 anna skaldawska ski. It owned precious manuscripts, including ted to sell the whole collection. He made a few THE WORK OF THE CUSTOMS IN 2010 Medieval chronicles from the 16th century. It attempts to do this, but with no results. After the The article is devoted to the work of the customs also included many other literary works, as well breaking out of World War II, the collection was in the area of protecting cultural property. as a collection of valuable objects and paintings, still in the hands of its creator. A repeated sales The author discusses the development of legal as the library was a kind of museum. The author offer resulted in the buying of the collection by regulations protecting cultural property from describes the process of creating the library, Germans in November 1942 and moving it from being illegally taken out of the country. In many whose collections were dispersed towards the Lyon to Cracow. Why did the occupying power cases research on the authenticity of art, which end of the Second World War. It would be want to create a Chopin museum in Cracow? was conducted before their being taken abroad, wonderful if the Baworovianum collection could It was certainly an opportunity to publicise the resulted in discovering forgeries. be gathered together again. cultural activity of the Nazis and to create the impression that the brilliance of the composer page MaRcin gocH was also sparked off by his German tutors and 27 page 36 Jan skŁodowski his inspiration by German composers. THE ROLE OF THE POLICE AND BOR- HIPOLT GÓRSKI’S SARCOPHAGUS DER SERVICES IN PROTECTING THE The author describes an unusual altar table NATIONAL HERITAGE which used to be the sarcophagus of Hipolit page 13 Monika kuHnkE The author discusses the scientific symposium Górski. Hipolit Górski, who died in 1848, be- THE LOST PORTRAIT OF THE POPE which took place in Chełm in 2011 on the longed to a family which moved from the Crown The author describes the history of the portrait initiative of the Crime Office of the Main Police to Żmudź (Samogitia) in 1588. His family was of Pope Pius XI by Stanisław Kotwin Gilewski, Headquarters and the Office of the Commander a well-known one, with many members holding which used to be located at the seat of the Apo- of the Police Headquarters under the above title. important offices. The sarcophagus is made of stolic Nunciature in Warsaw. Pius XI was the Apart from oral presentations, the Symposium marble and its shape and ornaments refer to nuncio of the Holy See in Poland in the years featured an exhibition of the visual documenta- the most important orders of classical Greek 1919-1921. The publication is a reminiscence of tion of property recovered by the police in the architecture: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. It was the Warsaw seats of the Nunciature and their in- years 1980 – 2010. probably executed in Italy. teriors. The last of these in the inter-war period was located in Warsaw at 10 Szucha Avenue. It page adaM gRaJEwski was burnt down by the Nazis with the portrait of 28 page 38 Monika NOWAK Pius XI inside. THE ANTI-CRIME UNIT IN THE VOIVOD- POLISH NATIONAL HERITAGE ABROAD SHIP POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN ŁÓDŹ The Polish Museum in America "PROTECTING THE NATIONAL HERI- This is a subsequent publication on cultural TAGE BY THE POLICE" – this was the slogan property abroad. The author describes the col- page 16 guiding the organisers of a cycle of conferences lection of THE POLISH MUSEUM IN AME- MaRia RoManowska - zadRożna under the auspices of the main Police Head- RICA, which was set up in 1935 and opened POLISH KONTUSZ SASHES quarters, which were connected with the in 1937. It is located in Chicago and has a rich About 111 kontusz sashes were lost as a result exhibition presenting their achievements in this archive and library, as well as precious works of of the Second Word War. They are included field. In October 2010 such a conference also art, such as portraits by Stanisław Witkiewicz. in the database of the Department of National took place in Opoczno. The publication gives a Heritage of the Ministry of Culture. Over half of rich variety of examples illustrating the efficiency them were in the National Museum in Warsaw. of the Łódź police. It also points out the tasks page 40 Monika baRwik Before, this collection comprised 128 sashes. assigned to the Unit for Fighting Crime Against CATALOGUE OF LOSSES Now only 28 are extant. Their state of preserva- the National Heritage, which was set up in May tion varies. The author describes the origin of 2007 on the decision of the Voivodship Com- the sashes produced both in Poland and abroad.