Bronislaw Chromy (1925-2017), Sheep No. 3, 1990s.

Patinated bronze, granite, 90 x 26 x 70 cm

The first Sheep sculpture was created in 1963 and was one of the works donated by Polish artists to the city of Skopje affected by the tragic earthquake. In Cracow, the first Sheep appeared a few years later, when the artist donated three sculptures to the Agricultural University on Aleje Trzech Wieszczy, where they still stand today. The sculptures from the Sheep series, presented at the auction, date from the 1990s. Sheep is the first series of works in which Chromy used his most recognizable material - untrimmed pebble.
Bronislaw Chromy (1925 - 2017) - sculptor, medalist, painter, draughtsman, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. After graduating from the High School of Fine Arts, he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. A student of Xawery Dunikowski.
In his work Bronislaw Chromy takes up a wide range of subjects. Notable among them are sculptures with historical and martyrological themes (Pieta Oświęcimska, 1963), musical themes (Monument to Frederic Chopin, 2005), cosmological themes (Copernicus, constellations and star systems) and animalistic themes. Among the unusual sculptures and monuments that have already permanently grown into Krakow's landscape, we should certainly mention the Wawel Dragon from the Vistula River(1969), the Fountain of the Players from Wolnica Square, the Owls from the Planty, the Sheep from the square in front of the Agricultural Academy, as well as the monument to the dog Dżok (2001), located on the Vistula boulevards near Wawel.