1939/1945
gelatin silver print, 17.8 × 12.6 cm, mounted on cardboard 29.8 × 23.6 cm,
signed "Sempoliński" and titled on the front, artist’s stamp with inscription "99/I 1945" on the reverse of the cardboard
vintage

The city and its architecture were central to Sempoliński’s art. This photograph, which shows Sigismund’s Column and Warsaw’s Royal Castle in the background, is one of the most instantly recognisable of his pictures. It was reproduced on a number of printed materials, including old Warsaw postcards and calendars.
Publication: I Just Make Documents - Photographs of Leonard Sempoliński (Zachęta National Gallery of Art, 2005).
Exhibition: retrospective I Just Make Documents - Photographs of Leonard Sempoliński, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2005).