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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 1930s (?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 with a reference to 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. 4x4 cm.
Designer: Gerard Ciolek, late 1944, or early 1945.
This experimental design, created while being interned as a POW in German camps in Pomerania/North Germany, echoes a portion 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, 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 with a reference 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, late 1950s (?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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