"Peonies", oil on canvas, 64.5 x 50.5 cm, private collection
"The Colourful Flowers in a Vase", c. 1935, oil on cardboard, 62.5 x 47 cm, private collection
"Painter and Model", 1911, oil on canvas, 151 x 80 cm, Regional Museum, Torun

"Manifesto", 1949, National Museum, Warsaw
"Reclining Nude", oil on canvas, 47.5 x 65 cm, private collection
"Nude", watercolour, ink on paper, 36 x 28 cm, private collection

"Semi-Nude", c. 1940, oil on cardboard, 49 x 66 cm, private collection
"Landscape", oil on canvas, 38.5 x 65 cm, private collection
"Half Nude", oil on cardboard, 49.5 x 69.5 cm, private collection

A drastic rejection of accepted principles of depiction was made in the youthful works of Wojciech Weiss. The impact of Stanislaw Przybyszewski and his theory of the "naked soul", a source of fascination for the Cracow milieu, endowed these paintings with ecstatic expression, whose violence and pan-eroticism are comparable only with the art of Edvard Munch, the great Norwegian artist of the period. [*]

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