Bidspirit auction | Signed Franciszek Starowieyski drawing of

Signed Franciszek Starowieyski drawing of the Queen of Thunderbolts - Signed Franciszek Starowieyski (Polish, 1930-2009) The Queen of Thunderbolts Charcoal and chalk on toned paper, signed lower center. The Queen of Thunderbolt embodies Starowieyski’s fascination with the grotesque, erotic, and metaphysical. The composition presents a bare-chested female figure with a distorted, mask-like visage, crowned by radiating, spiked rays suggestive of divine or electric power. Executed in charcoal and chalk on toned paper. Starowieyski, known for his fantastical theatrical posters and dream-laden works, frequently explored themes of mythic femininity and transformation. The Queen of Thunderbolts resonates with his late-career focus on allegorical portraiture, where the boundaries between beauty and distortion dissolve into surreal grandeur. Signed: Starowieyski Medium: Charcoal and chalk on paper. Dimensions: 50 × 39.5 cm (with frame: 57.5 × 47 cm), 19.5 inches h x 15w, framed to 22.5h x 18.5 w.