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- [A bookplate ("ex-libris") #1 for Gerard Ciolek.
A linocut. Black ink on cream-coloured typing paper.
Original size approx. 8x10 cm.
Designer: Gerard Ciolek, late 1941 or early 1942 (cf. strong similarity to ex-libris #2).
(This exlibris was previously erroneously dated by TMC (in Jul 2006) as a design from late 1930s, say ?1938).
A motif of a generic park, with an allusion to a portico of the Belweder Palace, Warsaw
(cf. G. Ciolek. 1954. Ogrody Polskie. p.118), and the family's coat of arms.]
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- [A bookplate ("ex-libris") #2 for Gerard Ciolek.
A linocut. Metallic "golden" ink on brown packing paper.
Original size approx. 4.5x4.5 cm.
Designer: Gerard Ciolek, Aug or Sep 1941, Warszawa.
(This exlibris was previously erroneously dated by TMC (in Jul 2006) as a design from late 1944, or early 1945, thought to be created while being interned
as a POW in German camps in Pomerania/North Germany)
This homely design, adapted from an approx. 4.5x10.0 cm invitation to the G.C.'s birthday celebrations (on 24 Sep 1941),
echoes the family's crest element of the bookplate #1.]
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- [A bookplate ("ex-libris") #3 for Gerard Ciolek.
A linocut. Black ink on beige packing paper.
Original size approx. 8x10 cm.
Designer: Gerard Ciolek, 1943?.
(This exlibris was previously erroneously dated by TMC (in Jul 2006) as a design from early 1950s (1952?).
A motif alluding to baroque figures of cherubs in the Wilanow Palace, Warsaw
(cf. G. Ciolek. 1954. Ogrody Polskie. p. 105), and to the family's coat of arms.]
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- [A bookplate ("ex-libris") #4 for Gerard Ciolek.
A two-part linocut. Red and brown ink on white glossy paper.
Original size approx. 7x7 cm.
Designer: Tadeusz Przypkowski, 1949.
(This exlibris was previously erroneously dated by TMC (in Jul 2006) as a design from late 1950s i.e.1958)
A motif of a head of a Ciolek/Minotaur located in the heart of a garden labyrinth.
The work by Przypkowski proved to be the most favourite design, and was used most widely.]
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